The previous post looks awfully like a badly written thesis objective. What I really want to blog here is about swimming in the ocean before work, exchanging veggies with neighbors, how a house in the countryside is never exclusively yours but that's enjoyable too, how my friends are trying to make their dreams come true and by only listening to them I feel part of the process, etc. Or what I just had for breakfast.
Dear Nakayama-san,
返信削除はじめまして。It is a pleasure to run across your blog. I look forward to reading more posts of what it's like to live embedded in satoyama-satoumi.
My interest in this kind of "landscape" is wide and deep and yet also remote, as I live in a distinctly non-satoyama landscape (Palo Alto, California, south of San Francisco, next to Stanford University).
I started to keep a blog of my musings which you might enjoy for a gaijin's perspective. http://satoyamaspirit.org
I really enjoy your descriptions, explanations, photos and subtle humor. Wonderful! Please keep it up.
Warm regards from the United States,
Alan Zulch
Dear Zulch-san,
返信削除こちらこそ、はじめまして。Thanks for your heads-up on the "gaijin perspective." It is intriguing to think how such perspectives may have fed into the formation of the "SATOYAMA" (cf. 里山) concept and associated international processes.
Thanks again,
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