culture shockin'

I managed to leave Japan right between the anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was a pretty intense time to leave, at least for me. At the same time that I sat down with my Japanese family and talked about how sad it was for me to leave there would be news about the anniversaries on the tele. Well, luckily most people have learned to distance those events with current American people (in Nagasaki, however, I did notice some tension among the older crowd in the trams).

Now I am in America, or at least one of the very most western bits of the U.S.A.. And while flying into Oahu I was chatting with a new Japanese friend, Kentaro, and he pointed out Pearl Harbor from our window, and I said "yup, that's it." I felt, of course, absolutely no anger. But that is a whole different thing.

And now we have terrorists roaming the earth looking for terrifying ways to kill people.

I, in the meantime, am on Maui messing around with a short movie project. Trying to make a meaningful piece on Maui's new wind power. It's my first movie project, so I'm sort of crossing my fingers. For some reason I have a very strong feeling about the new windmills (and I think the world needs to embrace them a lot more rather than complain about them being eye sores - the truth is they are a lot better than the alternatives (for the most part)). And they are beautiful, so there.

That is kind of my news in a nutshell. I am reading Stumbling on Happiness and Natural Capitalism. I am also spending a lot of good quality time with my bro Nick.