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Damali Miller's avatar

Loved this essay. How we are living and how are the places where we live, is so current in most of our minds, especially as it is playing out in our day to day lives. Living in Brooklyn and New York in general, there’s a very rich bit of everything, as well as reminders of what there is not. The US as a country is extremely disturbing...as it always has been. I have always felt I could live somewhere else, but know that I am fully cosmopolitan at heart with deep appreciative time of country forests and seasides on the side. Thank you for all of the wonderful links for references that you talk about. Always enjoy this aspect of your writing. Japanese references with links provided were helpful and wonderful to learn about. Others I knew about, but loved revisiting the time and history through your links. Listened to the Studs Terkel interview with James Baldwin.....powerful, deeply insightful, as Baldwin always is. It was incredible and insightful to include that interview. America is deeply distorted and complex in the initial simplicity of its core problem. Once again, thank you for a really good read that is so expanded and rich for the references and links that you’ve taken the time to put in for your readers.✔️💥💯

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Susan Dutton's avatar

I once boarded a Hankyu train in Kobe and saw about ¥15,000 in coins scattered across the bench opposite me. I rode the train for about ten stops and watched people come and go as the coins remained untouched. I miss feeling so safe, although I live in a relatively safe suburb here in the States now.

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