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Tattoo Studio Catclaw@Kyoto 2, originally uploaded by TommyOshima.
 
The beauty of nature: wasteful and reckless.
 

I opened Adium today upon returning this afternoon from a morning in town that was anything but planned.
I returned home last night after the physics-round-table a bit early as I was positively and throughly exhausted. Aikido training on Friday evening found all the Sensei in Strasbourg and three of us left on the tatami. We [...]

Kingdom of Heaven XXII, originally uploaded by TommyOshima.

Too many words, too few hours.

Small wonder!
Today I was telling Marc, who knows nothing about Aikido, what it was like a few months ago in one tough lesson in bokken from one of my teachers in France. Sensei asked me to hit him with the bokken using a kesa movement. I could not. I tried several times and each time [...]

My friends and family know that I have not quite chosen the easy road. The combination of being both deeply private and living out loud is not always straight forward for somebody of my intensity. My present unwillingness to compromise adds still yet another flavour, for I have in this path of mine done more [...]

lift after party, originally uploaded by noneck.

Dannie Jost, Franscesca Birks, Tom Purves and Stephanie Booth

Every once in a while I do question this whole blogging activity. Why do I do this? What does this bring me?
At Lift07 just about anybody half-awake noticed the vivid absence of expressions like blogging, to blog, and other blogware expressions. That was nothing unexpected for me, but I tend to have a distorted vision [...]

DSCF0909.JPG, originally uploaded by liftconferencephotos.
 
Observing, absorbing. From the round of introductions at the start of the creativity workshop at Lift07.

The cool girls hanging out in the stairwell., originally uploaded by Tom Purves.

Thanks Tom! You have now made it official!

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L1001846.jpg, originally uploaded by Guido van Nispen.
I am well. The antibiotics have been doing their thing rather well. I am however up to my ears with a huge backlog of writing blaring to be done, accounting screaming at me, and deeply touched by the feedback coming in.
Humbled by life, once more. Happy.
Join me in the [...]

I am back to Berne from Geneva following the LIFT conference. I am in very much an absorption mode processing it all. Right now I just need to take care of myself, I need a bit of rest.
Last night I had a scary visit to the Hôpital De La Tour emergency room and am now [...]

While trying to get to grips with my presentation for Friday, I took a break and checked for new pictures on the website of the Aikikai de Strasbourg, indeed there are quite a few from the recent Shihan trip to Japan that are precious.
In particular I love this one where Chiba Sensei has gotten his [...]