Every new year for the past 4 years I’ve set a tone, a theme, a certain idea to pursue, rather than some specific goal. I’ve found this fits my life way more than a concrete goal that I am not enthusiastic

It’s been a week since my last post and I hardly even noticed. I’ve been head down in my work not paying attention to much other than my output which has been centered around music and specific projects.

It’s amazing how flexible reality can be at times. One moment something feels like the end of the world. The next it becomes an opportunity. Our leak turned from a disaster that stole 2 weeks of our life

If anyone ever wanted to see me play live, now's your chance.... Live from Tokyo, it's my most recent show or the first 15 minutes to be exact. Ironically in 2025, it feels 100x easier to get 10 people

Sketch by Maho Kagaya 日本語は↓ I wrote this one in Japanese originally so the feeling may be a little different from my usual writing ——- “You’re greedy!” a new friend who came to the show said. “All right,

Sketch by Maho Kagaya 日本語は↓ I wrote this one in Japanese originally so the feeling may be a little different from my usual writing ——- “You’re greedy!” a new friend who came to the show said. “All right,

Sketch by Maho Kagaya 日本語は↓ I wrote this one in Japanese originally so the feeling may be a little different from my usual writing ——- “You’re greedy!” a new friend who came to the show said. “All right,

If there is one thing I’ve gotten worlds better at when comparinng myself now to the me of a few years ago, it’s rolling with the punches. I’m not as easy to phase. It is what it is but I’m going to make

It’s funny that this happened only 2 or 3 weeks after I made the prompt about relationships with neighbors (all CultureQ topics have no time limit so feel free to answer them any time, next topic will

Sefishly enjoying the weather that’s way more comfortable than it should be in late November. Could the wind and sunshine feel any better today? Trying to manage the gap between where I want to be and

Cross Culture is getting fired up. We have more and more posts each week, and it already feels as if we never left. There’s a really amazing (or terrifying) personal story I wanted to share today but I

Cross Culture is getting fired up. We have more and more posts each week, and it already feels as if we never left. There’s a really amazing (or terrifying) personal story I wanted to share today but I

I tried to get the Cross Culture Question out today, but I had a bunch of classes and some planning to do and ended up in a few conversations with people. Now it's late and I don't have energy to come

In the post introducing this topic, I talked about my neighbors in the US growing up and in university. Before the week is over and we start a new topic I want to talk about my experience with neighbors

As time goes by and I pile on more and more experiences, both good and bad, and as I come to terms with my own life, I find that thr urgency I used to feel had disappated. I still want things, but none

Earlier today my friend sent me a clip of Alan Watts, and said it was one of his favorite by him. If you don’t know who Aan Watts is, he’s one of the main figures in the exportation of Asian philosophies

“Culture Q” has gotten off to a good start! I didn’t expect many people to join right away as these kinds of things have a kind of momentum to them, but we did get a few responses to last weeks question

You don’t need to read my last post for this one to make sense but it’ll definitely help. In it I talked about how we all have our own framing of the world including what we see as “normal”, right and

As I get older I desire human interaction less and less. While many people just take these kinds of phenomena as "par for the course" I don't leave things at face value "just because that's

Cross Culture is back and this will serve as a reboot to our weekly Cross Culture Prompts. To avoid the prompt post titles being too long and ugly, let’s call them… CultureQ The new format is simple: I