Let me start with the basics. FUCK YOU! That’s the world we live in and you better get used to it. Emperor Trump is not going to step down. He might die. But that is only the end of ‘weak’ people. The United States of America is now the Republican States of America and that…
The world we once knew, the world most of us grew up in and worked in, in which those of us who raised families or had careers, that world is about to be gone. In fact, it’s probably been gone for a while but this is the year that things burn and are gone forever. …
2024 was such a trip of a year. I named it the Year of Foundation Building when I put together my goals and dreams sheet back in late 2023. That certainly seems to have been what it was for me, although if you had told me that I would be sitting here in two feet…
It needed to be written. It needed to be shared. Now it exists. Take it and do what you will with it The Mountain Manifesto Introduction: Everything is Not Fine Why Non-Violence Matters Discourse on the World’s Power Structure The Crisis of the Individual in a Broken System Escaping Tribalism and Extreme Ideology The Harbingers…
51 is a new beginning.
December 25, 2024 – Satoshi Manor. Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan. Merry Christmas Everyone. I hope this season and day finds you surrounded by loved ones and enjoying peace. As for me – I painted a picture, I walked around and I ate some KFC. My neighbor brought me apples and oranges as a thank you for…
I thought November would be a boring month. It wasn’t. December is shaping up to be an enjoyable month too – but one mostly at home, I think. In early November, on a whim because the rain, the short days, and the start of the cold wasn’t very fun – I booked a ten day…
There is one big reason I come back to America. I love my daughter and honestly that’s reason enough. My most recently completed book could easily be labeled roman a clef which roughly translates to fiction where characters and situations are more or less the author’s fantasy or desires from life translated to the page. Novel…
I could write a lot about Hanoi and I probably will – but for now, I think these pictures express it all pretty well. Amazing country, amazing people, amazing city. ~CD
As the weather started to get cooler in Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan in late October, I realized that the time when it would be best to not be at Satoshi Manor was probably November. The issue was primarily that the great weather and wonderful colors of Autumn had almost ended and the cold and snow wonder…