Let’s see, up along the ridge of Hakkorei, the white yashio are blazing and an azure sky has come out to play.  You could join them.

Or you could stay down in the city, download the version of Adobe Acrobat that the U.S. government has decided you have to have  before you can fill out the form you have to fill out declaring the savings you have to declare held in “foreign” banks (geez, it’s just the local bank down the street), and submit the document electronically . . . the main instructions a mere 21 pages, the supplementary instructions only a few pages more.

Right. Into the car we leap, up the highway we fly.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea,

Drink the wild air’s salubrity:

When the star Canope shines in May,

Shepherds are thankful and nations gay.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson