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Weekly Photo Challenge: Danger!

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I usually submit a post for the Photo Challenge on Friday night in Japan but this week is an exception. It’s a national holiday today and I have my time to stroll out with a camera. A question is what should I take for Danger! Indeed, our life is quite safe except some political issues.

Pictures here were taken at a construction site suspended during holidays. Honestly saying, one of the most dangerous things would have been my taking pictures.

In response to the weekly photo challenge, Danger! by The Daily Post.

Bonne journée, Photo

Le Guin

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If you see a whole thing – it seems that it’s always beautiful. Planets, lives… But up close a world’s all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life’s a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

もし全体を見るなら – それはきっといつも美しいことでしょう。植物が生い茂り命がある。でも、間近で見れば世界はどれも泥と岩。そして日常といえば、生活はひどく忙しく、疲れ、いつも通りになれない。

– Ursula K. Le Guin

Honestly saying, I don’t know the context of these words. I read few her novels in Japanese translation and found the quote on a web site. It sounds a bit pessimistic but probably she wouldn’t mention our aigre lives because we always know that’s why the world is beautiful.

正直に告白すれば、どんな文脈なのか分かっていない。アーシュラ・K・ル=グインは日本語訳で少しばかりSFを読んだ程度で、この引用もウェブサイトで見つけただけだ。悲観的な響きではあるが、恐らくは酸いた人生を憂いているのではない。だからこそ世界が美しいと誰もが知っているのだから。

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Wanderlust

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My RIMOWA has not original wheels anymore.
Small wheels on two corners stopped working five years ago and I didn’t want to repair it because it was a bit old and I used to travel with it, just say, I wanted to own it as it was.
Two years later, however, I changed my mind. I found that the favorite and used-to-take travel equipment should not be just a memory. Now it has bigger two new wheels. The next question is where I SHALL go.

In response to the weekly photo challenge, Wanderlust by The Daily Post.