Sag Harbor Weekend: November 26-28, 2010 A

Archangel Raphael (tm) ... Haha

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Mr. Natch: Jus' passin' thru

Patrick & Randy: Kokyu Dosa

Heard about this book in the news: Published in August 2010, then went Out-of-Print right afterward (no more copies of this are available now). I found a copy through a Catholic bookshop in St. Paul, Minnesota, who had 6 copies left.

Spirited Away (2002) & Sen

I love allegory:

We ate at a Japanese restaurant called "Sen" in Sag Harbor, and I remembered in Hiyao Miyazaki's film:  "Spirited Away": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirited_Away

Chihiro was renamed "Sen" when she went to work in the Ghost Bathhouse. 

I had to look up Sen, which means "a thousand"... Chihiro was 10 years old in the story. 

So the meaning to me was how going to the bath-house was a growing-up period for Chihiro. Her life experience went from that of a 10 year old to that of "A Thousand" in a  "Sen"-se. (Sense). 

Hayao Miyazaki

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Calypso

"My name is Calypso and I have Lived Alone.
I Live on an Island, and I Waken to the Dawn.
My Long Hair Flows as I Sing into the Wind.
I Dream of Nights when I Could Taste the Salt on His Skin.
Salt of the Waves, and of Tears and Though He Pulled Away,
I've Kept Him Here For Years.
Now - I - Let Him Go."
~ Suzanne Vega, Calypso