Dispatch № 34: Moments in Suspension

Photograph taken from a Musashino Line train in Saitama Prefecture, showing a large floodgate in the foreground and Mt Fuji in silhouette in the background

Three small children play in a public park sandbox under a cedar tree. The smallest of them is digging a hole with a stick, eschewing the nearby yellow plastic shovel. Two women sit on an adjacent bench. One of them wears a large-brimmed hat.

Dispatch № 1: Trusting the Gut

My boarding pass for the Delta flight that took me from Shanghai to Tokyo to start everything over on March 31, 2015

For thirteen years before I boarded Delta flight DL296 from Shanghai to Narita, the journey lived at the back of my mind. It was always there, calling out to me, thrusting itself into my conscious awareness through any gap it could to color my thoughts with longing.

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