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In reply to the discussion: "Please, do NOT pray for Japan.." [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)The people, the culture, the history, the land.
Two years ago, my heart broke.
The connections are real: I have friends in Japan now. I have family who have lived in Japan.
Then, when the triple-meltdown happened, Japan and the U.S. news media weren't truthful, so I did all I could to warn the people there about what was happening. This re-posting expresses, in a way, why the tragedy is so very painful:
322 years ago, Basho walked the wilderness of atomic Honshu.
Basho wrote "Journal of a Weather-Beaten Skeleton" and "Narrow Road to a Far Province."
The great man walked and saw what was then the magical Japanese frontier and today is a nightmare disaster zone.
Reasons why I love Japan, its history, culture and people, thanks to National Geographic:
On the Poet s Trail
Footsteps fall softly
Following the path
Of Japans haiku master.