To Osaka to Rehearse

This may have been a long day of sorts.  A certain amount of travel required to get to the rehearsal venue, a certain amount of focus to rehearse Beethoven 9 in a certain manner, a certain amount of energy and tenacity to bike home in the dark wind.  But during the walk between one train station to another this morning, I had one of those moments of being in love with being in Japan.  It happens more and more.  And walking around the park before rehearsal.  And being very confused in Starbucks several time as I just tried to get hot water and ended up ordering tea.  Posters on the train, people in the park, new ways of speaking, of eating, of living, uncertainty and unassuming possibility everywhere.

how many things can you do with a snowman? 

reading a newspaper in Osaka park

fall in the park

Osaka Castle

ramen curry, fusion cooking after returning home