February 13th, 2005
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I saw cats having sex this morning
I’m not quite sure how, but I’m on my way to Kyoto again for the second time in seventeen hours. If I weren’t so upbeat about the whole situation, this might seem mundane. But I am, and it’s not. Interestingly, my time alone this weekend has basically entailed about three hours from five to eight a.m. walking through the bitter cold of a Kyoto winters night by the Kamogawa river.
I really like Rodney. He’s one of my favorite people in the world, and he’s always so wonderful to me I’m almost embarrassed. How do you repay such human warmth? Even if I didn’t feel indebted to him, I’d still want to give him every break and fortune I can think of. In my contemplation of how to be a better person, and care for my friends, I think it’s a combination of genuine thoughtfulness and lots of little extra efforts, like small treats or taking the initiative to help out with stuff. I’m thinking that my personal accomplishments are decreasing in significance when weighted against my relationships. “No man who has friends is a failure.”
So I haven’t really taken any pictures this weekend, but that’s okay because I do that by myself all the time. I would almost say that it’s for the best since it has been overcast all weekend, but after reading Philip’s tutorial I’m starting to think differently. Less sky shots, more ground-anchored subjects. No annoying hard shadows that way. But the color temperature is way too cold, unfortunately.
My stomach’s pretty torn up from fighting the cold an only resting for two hours of being half-awake and shivering. I guess my dad would say, “Well, you’ll sleep good tonight.”
[I just realized this is the first time I've EVER been down to Takanohara and not gone down to Nara city, missing out on visiting my favorite bar, and seeing Yuki.]
