fifty-eight

 

Clerkmanifesto is going context free for 100 days!

While I retire from 31 years at the Roseville Library, sell nearly everything I own, fly with my darling wife to Japan for 40 days, and then move together to France to start to build a life there, I present a less explained clerkmanifesto, a clerkmanifesto of snapshots and time travel. Below you may see old posts without introduction from my 4,750 post collection. You may see random photos, brand new or years old. I may write a passage about Japan as if of course you know I'm in Japan, I may make a simple observation or joke, but whatever it is, I won't be explaining it. You'll have to take it as it comes.

For more context you are welcome to read this longer introduction.

And if this is all too confusing I welcome you to investigate our thousands of fully explained historic posts from the past 12 years, though I'll be the first to admit, hours later, you may still come away a little confused.

Here, however it works, is what clerkmanifesto has for you today:

This is a modified version of a series I did of themed bookshelves at the library. This is the living version, full of dramatic trickling water action. Hopefully it won't do too much damage to the books.

Click twice as ever to get it to play...

Reporting again from the present, this is Clerk Manifesto in Kyoto, Japan. I am having a bit of a hard time keeping track of what images I have posted here because they are so involved to produce, going through layers and layers of images. I have switched over to a postcard perfect approach to Japan pictures after the earlier ink scroll approach. Maybe this comes along with some visits to classic places like the shrine with all the red torii gates (Inari, which is a fox shrine!), or the tea growing region of Uji, which is really more of a neighborhood of Kyoto. Or maybe it is just an expression of not really being able to live up to how pretty some of the things we see here actually are.

Every day is exhausting and demanding, which explains how there are so many old people here who seem to live life on the streets with a great deal of vigor and persistence, much like the amazing and tough old trees that populate this city and never stop fascinating me. Even today,  taking a day off, so to speak, from our usual touristic explorations of the city, involves coffee shops, grocery stores, incredibly long walks to botanical gardens (one of my favorite places in all of Kyoto), and several different temples.

Today we are in the house a little bit earlier than normal, so perhaps I can manage to put together one small collection of more recent photographs for you from Kyoto, Japan.