Dispatch № 48: Lineage

Photo of an old snapshot showing David R Munson as a baby, sitting on the floor with his father on a summer evening in Lubbock, Texas, probably in 1983

Long after the baby has grown into a man, he sits on a bench in a park in Japan, ten thousand kilometers and thirty-nine years from Lubbock.

Dispatch № 42: Chicken and Beer

Portrait of a random old guy who appeared out of nowhere one night in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, and bought my friend and I fried chicken and beer

It was just before Christmas and my friend and I were hanging out in Ikebukuro, an area on the north side of Tokyo. We had been wandering around aimlessly and were outside a convenience store when a man approached us.

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