You will find here a collection of postings about the things that occupy me as I write my book this summer–namely, green plants, blue water and indigo ink. The title comes from something my friend Pam said about how easy it is to grow plants, while still being aware that water is not the abundance it used to be.
Sometimes the posts will ramble. What can I say?–I am writing a book. It is large, and it contains multitudes! It is about the writer Nakagami Kenji, and how he re-shaped the idea of subculture, through literature, in the 1970s and 1980s, by creating new links to musicality and to writers outside Japan. I am hoping that keeping this blog will produce clear writing in the bookly by-product, so that people will actually want to read the book on purpose. But also, that it will remind me, through whatever kinds of back-and-forth emerge, that when I am in the underwater of writing, so to speak, there are others out there, also glubbing along.
In keeping with this sliding scale of more and/or less, sometimes, you will come across pedagogy, goings-on of music and my sometimes scarce, sometimes abundant nine other creative cat-lives.
Exhibit “R” for ratafia here is made from the tangerines below my window, steeped for forty days with cardamom and spices. Cheers!
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