sunset over neighbors’ roofs

Rick Elizaga — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 06:01:03 +0000

Mari watches the sunset from our upstairs window.
Among the rooftops is the laundry shed for Kokoro no Oshibori, roughly, “Handtowels of the Heart.” If you eat in a restaurant in Kyoto’s Sakyou-ku district, maybe your oshibori, the hot or cold hand towels you get at the table, are washed and dried there. Sometimes we can hear the ka-chunk ka-chunk of the machines late into the night. The company name is actually Tsukasa, but kokoro no oshibori, written on their service vans, always makes me smile.

Looking back:

From the summer memories series: life in Morton, Washington. Dad sits in his favorite chair munching peanuts, watching a History Channel program about tanks on satellite TV. Meanwhile, outside, meat grills on the Weber while a fawn looks on.

KIX to SFO to PDX to SEA to NRT

Rick Elizaga — Fri, 06 May 2005 20:57:15 +0000

Visited the homeland again for 10 days last month to see friends and family: Osaka to San Francisco, then to Washington by way of Portland, then Seattle to Tokyo. Not enough time to see everyone, but I did catch:

Bay Area: Kid-sitting my nephews while their parents attend a wedding.
Above, left: Kite flying on what I thought was a windless day.
Above, right: My sister Marnie showing off her new mehndi.

Washington State: More time with family:

Mom watching the inauguration of the Pope.

Dad wayfinding in the backyard with his RoadMate GPS system and portable battery pack.

My brother Andrew at REI in Seattle, where we attended a presentation by a couple who circumnavigated Iceland in kayaks.

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sunset over neighbors’ roofs

KIX to SFO to PDX to SEA to NRT