Category: Kanagawa
Photography in Shonan– Mid-August 2023
After a hiatus of about three years, I’ve resumed attending meetups. The pandemic and subsequent family hardships led me to withdraw from socializing. I’m uncertain if I’ve fully recovered from the trauma. Nonetheless, I’ve noticed a significant change in my mindset recently – I now crave real in-person interactions, moving away from exclusively online ones. …
Back to Photography
“There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower Hi international friends. It’s really been a while since I last posted the last photographic journal outside of my neighborhood. Because of the surging number of covid cases, I haven’t had any opportunities to go to cities, including the central districts of my home city, Yokohama. But thanks to my friend who invited me to hang out in the city, I brought my Canon DSLR along for the first time in more than a year. Even though I had had some …
Scars of Modern Life
“The marks humans leave are too often scars.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars I’ve been insecure and anxious for the past ten years. Maybe it’s my whole life. Frankly, I’m not good at managing my mental and emotional ups and downs. Just like anybody else in this modern world, I’ve been through a lot. In our modern world, unless you’re living in a remote dense rainforest far away from human civilizations, we barely face physically dangerous situations. We, however, could experience other forms of injuries, such as emotional pain, rejection, and distress. Some researchers found evidence that those emotional pains could be as harmful and dangerous as …
Pray for the World
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” ― Mahatma Gandhi Pray. That’s all I can do for now. Just Pray. Pray for your family. Pray for your friends. Pray for someone in the world who may be suffered from unimaginable pain, poverty, and loneliness. A couple of days ago, shocking news reverberated across my country. The bodies of a man, woman, and two children were found in a car parked at a convenience store’s parking lot in Yokohama. The police believed it was …
Find Your Own Swahili
“The Swahili word safari means journey, it has nothing to do with animals, someone ‘on safari’ is just away and unobtainable and out of touch.” ― Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town Hujambo! This means ‘How are you?’ in Swahili. Yes, you’ve read it right. It’s Swahili. Swahili is a lingua franka of the African Great Lakes region and many other areas of the continent. The exact number of Swahili speakers remains unknown, but estimately there are 50 to 100 million speakers all across Africa. Today, I’d like to use Swahili as a metaphor to discuss the true essence of learning. So, why do I …