The Eastern Edge

My approach to blogging is a Zen-like "Eat when hungry, sleep when tired," which is a new-age way of say "I blog when I feel like (alternately; "when I get around to") blogging.

Aside from that, I've been writing about how my Japanese column has changed since I first started writing it in Toronto in a delibrately abrasive and controversal style, to the more "nice guy" style it is now. I'm definately getting soft as I get older!
Unfortunately, half of what I wrote is in English, the other half is in Japanese, and none of it is ready to be published here yet.

I hope to have something ready by the time my new column site is launched on Joinet Japan (not sure when that will happen, but it's in the works).

That's all for now.
In keeping with the Zen theme, I will close out with a few Zenish says:

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought."
- Basho

"So little time, so little to do."
- Oscar Levant

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
- Herm Albright

"Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position.”
- Robertson Davies

I really like that one. And, finally, the reason I've decided that my blog is a Zen blog:

"Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that ..."
- George Carlin

'nuff said.