For realzes, nothing is boring in Japan. There's something to ignite the imagination at every turn. Even the vending machines there fascinated me, and they didn't even have THESE when i lived there:
and besides all the man-made wonders of Japan, the { insert your belief-word here, i.e. "God-made" "nature-made" "Big-Bang-made" } are breathtakingly wondrous as well. I miss the dense forests and coasts of Japan and the interesting flora. I miss the hot springs. I miss the brilliant colors of fall (very similar to New England's glam show) and the smell of mountain air. I even miss the Osorezan (which i might be misspelling)--the sulphur lake where many believe the spirits of dead children dwell.
And here's the newsflash (which isn't a newsflash at all for those of you who actually know me {and some of the readers i've never met in person know me far better than some of my professed friends}): Arizona is ugly to me. Brown brown brown and brittle scrub everywhere i look is ugly to me. If you think Arizona is beautiful and you love it here, then great! You're in the right place for you. But i miss trees...big ones! I miss canopies of leaves that come as unfolding green explosions in spring, shade me through humid summers, romance me with redyelloworange canvases in the fall and lie waiting on the ground in winter for me to satisfyingly crunch underfoot.. People are different and have different interests and tastes. That's really not so hard to understand, is it? Nope. And if you're wondering what the hell this part of the post is really about, it behooved someone this week to tell me that my opinion of Arizona is wrong, that his is right (he's always right, mind you) and i'm simply "refusing" to see how beautiful it is. Really? This is not the year to tell me how to live, try to take away my "agency" or tell me what to think, people! Really! And this concludes my bout of getting annoyed at people. From now on, i'm simply ignoring it. Life is far too short to expend energy on that!
