TUNE IN TOKYO

On Children

On Children
Kahlil Gibran

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.

My Favorite "I Heart" tee shirt spottings in Japan

I heart candy and tiara
I heart doggy
I heart Jelly
I heart pleasure
I heart sweet candy and mint
I heart Happy Angels
No! I heart rich boy!
I heart Jaded
I heart gentle smile
I heart my own happy
I heart Hello Kitty
I heart eat
I heart slang
I heart fries
I heart 86 kisses
I heart Peace
I heart Baby
I heart superb view
I heart sad songs
I heart Rich
I heart Cuisine
I heart Me
I heart Heart
I heart cake
I heart girlie girl
I heart Happy Days.

Honorable mention goes to:

Yumily Happy Luv Pig

It wasn't a Tee shirt but it will be once I have it made into one next time I am in the US.

TO BE CONTINUED...

Quotes

"The wildflowers are awesome up in Albion Basin right now. I got about 100 pictures, all of the flowers, including the wildest flower of them all, your mother."

Dad

Have you even read Alice in Wonderland?

No, the only way I know the story is from that Tom Petty video.

Kevin

The true pros are like Chameleons - we blend based on need! I am a hamster while watching a movie at home - or a midnight treat in bed. My squirrel method is best used in a public indoor situation (store or work) while utilizing a slight of hand movement or discrete bottle or mug to remove from mouth. However, this technique is also good in the car if you want to spit one fail swoop out the window instead of wrestling the wind with every shell. The Chinchilla is good for when eating with guests - it is more polite and refined. No spitting and reserves of shells to be rid of...the teeth here are used to aid but the fingers do most of the work. My favorite is the traditional baseball player method. This one is acceptable at out door parties, in parks, beaches, and an uncrowded streets (spitting into a crowd is not well received) - a handful in and one out at a time. Crack and spit. And you guys call yourselves seed addicts... shameful!

Megs

Where are you going to tell our children that babies come from when they ask?

The moon

Kevin

The DJ will have to have a conservative mullet

Dad

If you don't play "don't stop" and "rock with you" I may have to leave your wedding.

Robert

I don't know if you've noticed but Japanese girls act younger than their British or American equivalent. I have 17 year old female students that would kill for a sticker.

Anonymous

I already have visions of AC360 doing an expose on tourist in Oz getting mauled to death by cassowaries and crocs because they thought the animals looked cute. I was on the tube and saw ANOTHER japanese tourist wearing an anatomically correct panda head as a hat/bike helmet. She was asleep (duh....she was on the train, what else was she supposed to do) and had no less than 15 pieces of flair hanging off her bag. It made me want to visit you again really bad. It also made me suspiciously hungry for tan katsu.

Matt Harris

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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

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