The apple trees in our garden have started returning to life. This is the second spring season I’m experiencing after moving to Sweden in 2021. Three months from now—in August—it will two years.

During this past 1 year and 9 months, I have been sitting for test after test in an effort to get myself set up in the best possible way, mostly for the Swedish language. I even got myself a job. […]

Happy Caturday! Last weekend I played with Midjourney Discord. Below are my results as a Midjourney virgin from the few experiments conducted. […]

I have new books arriving almost weekly, but this week’s new arrivals are worth mentioning!

Bokus.com is having a clearance sale with up to 90% discount on a wide selection of children’s books, biographies, thrillers, and on and on. No prize for guessing… I went straight to ‘work’! […]

ki no moto ni / shiru mo namasu mo / sakura kana

under the trees / soup, fish salad, and everywhere / cherry blossoms

I was in the basement retrieving some art materials (acrylic paint tubes, brushes and stuff) and plucked out a few past issues of my Flow magazines from the bookshelf there. Then I found this mini notebook (roughly A7-size).

An idea came to me to use my Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter to type out my favorite soul-searching Murakami quotes […]

The above quote is an excerpt from Seth Godin’s blog post […]