Friday, September 28, 2012

departures (1)



Each year comes with more and more goodbyes. Autumn, a natural season for departures, makes such losses even more poignant than they already are. I try to remember that departure from here connects to arrival somewhere else, and new life.

The card at the top is for a dear friend who has decided to leave Japan after more than 40 years. The intended recipients of the other two must remain a mystery.

12 comments:

  1. Wonderful. I like the first one best. Wow, just fantastic, Debbie.

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  2. Parting is such sweet sorrow. Sorry your friend is leaving. I have a feeling etegami will be flying across the miles.

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  3. Such a nice way to express your feelings!

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  4. These are beautiful. Dandelions do illustrate so vividly the "hole" or emptiness when someone is gone!

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  5. These are wonderful, even if they do pull my heart!

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  6. As one ages the sound of doors closing is deafening. Your etegami are so poignant and pictorial.

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  7. Oh, these are some of my favorites ever! It's so hard to have a close friend leave... & the dandelions express the sensation delicately yet powerfully.

    p.s. Saw this today on Letters of Note & thought of you: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/10/the-beauty-of-words.html

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    1. Leah, Thank you so much for the WONderful link. I immediately shared it with a bunch of my writer/translator friends. Lafcadio Hearn is famous here in Japan, of course, but that letter showed me a side of him that I'd not been aware of before.

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