Aging brain

 Neurobic exercises

Park view

 Every morning

the tree looks

at its shadow

My shadow

fills the field

A grey stick with

black marks here

and there like

the pockmarked

concrete path

its leaning on

Vermilion fly catcher

moves from tree to

tree

A couple

taking a walk

the lafy finds

a bench

and does a

box jump

confidence

springing

Core2k like

Heard of core2k in this video How to get SO good at Japanese you stop thinking in English

ajatt

 Optimized Kore

50000 Japanese sentences

Pimsleur

Japanese Level 1

Japanese

Poetry for Coaching

 

Poetry Tables: How to Create Profound Experiences of Courage, Connection, and Community Using Poetry 

While looking for poetry for coaching book, I came across this book poetry tables book, where in small group of 3-5, participants read some poems on their own and then select one to share as to why it means so much to them.

I love etymology poems.  eg Vikings window Carl philip poem. I need to research more about avis to auspicious. I was wonderign about Japanese etymology. Kids have been telling me about the Rose & Bruno Mars apato song and that apato means apartment.

It is amazing how different people get different things out of a poem. I saw a set of lines Seamus Heaney poem in The survival of the sickest book and was curious about the rest of the poem. Turns out that this is towards the end of the poem but another enthusiast found meaning in another section of the poem. It is interesting that the poet has this magic of connecting with different set of people through the same poem.

It might be these kind of lessons that some of the Poetry Table participants go home with. The elephant and the four blind men.

Nihonjinron

Longpoem

 longpoem submissions

While looking at how to write along poem, I heard Ron Padgett: Reading and Writing Long Poems and Anne Waldman: Reading and Writing Long Poems. They had many references to other long poems.

armature

Cats as Stations

 Cats Suggested as The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1850

Reading the Law to Lawyer

 Did Abrahma Lincoln go to law school

Reading the Law in some states as a way to become a lawyer 

Audio

 Oral history

Pictorial

 Whatever the people build

nature engulfs it

Languages interaction through Buddhism

 Sanskrit influence on Chinese

過去, 未來, 現在 map directly to Sanskrit past (atīta), future (anāgata), present (pratyutpanna)

Guòqù, wèilái, xiànzài

過去、未来、現在

Kako, mirai, ima

天堂 and 地獄 Tiāntáng and dìyù  heaven and hell

天国と地獄 Tengoku to djigoku

世界 lokadhatu Shìjiè

世界 Sekai world

 剎那，覺悟 moment, awakening

Chànà, juéwù

瞬間、目覚め 

Shunkan, mezame

JLPT tests

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Beyond Stoicism: A Guide to the Good Life with Stoics, Skeptics, Epicureans, and Other Ancient Philosophers

Been a fan of Stoicism, had to know whats beyond it.

Havent heard of Cyrenaics (not thinking about virtue). Marie Kondo style of simplifying.

Epicurius Natural and necessary desires

Dynamic and static pleasures. The fleeting joy at the end of vacation 

Thing about translation

 Translation changes based on the language it is in and going into. The order is different so that it makes sense and is the convention of the language it is translated into.

Today's learning from learning Japanese

 I kept coming across benri this morning. Later in the evening when I came across it, I was able to recall because in the morning, when I came across it the second time, I had to register it in mind.

The many conjugations of the verbs are a good way to learn the kanji with repetition.

Useful free Japanese resources

Remembering the Kanji vol I A complete course on how not to forget the meaning and writing of Japanese characters

wesleycrobertson books

Irodori books

Lets learn Japanese book

Got some of them from here 

Genki

Basic Japanese

pomax Grammar

Colloquial Japanese