Sunday, June 15, 2025

a poem for Gaza



 

I wonder what your hands are doing, while mine chop onions for dinner.

I wonder what your eyes are seeing, while mine gaze at the fresh spring green of the pineapple weed and aspen trees in the yard.

I wonder what your ears are hearing, while mine catch the song of the sora, the red-winged blackbird, the marsh wren.

wild roses
Wild Roses
I wonder what your skin is sensing, as mine feels the tiny prick from a mosquito.

I wonder what enters your nostrils, as mine inhale a warm breeze that has blown in from across the chilcotin plateau.

I wonder what your tongue tastes, as mine savors the last of the root cellared roasted beets, carrots and parsnips.

I wonder what your arms are holding, while mine bring in more pine for the cookstove.

I wonder what your are thinking, while I stumble about with my daily routine, preoccupied with trivialities.

I wonder, but I cannot imagine.

I am sorry.

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Destroyers of Worlds

Survival in the wilderness

  Like winning a lottery. Peace, fresh air, food and water, freedom. Money didn't buy this, hard work, sacrifice... none of those things. 

It was art and the conviction that life is. Taking life from anything has to be considered in light of ones own life. 

 Growing our own food is a luxury. When it was time to slaughter it was always hard. We would talk about it. How everyone who ate meat should have to experience taking life to survive.  

leaving

 

 

cat on a post


 

photograph by Aki Yamamoto

 
Scott Richardson making knives

Douglas fir tree throug to the lake
The Israeli government is using Jews as human shields.

 

Scott and Aki   



www. caribooblades.com

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Looking Back

Time goes by fast. We made this recording in 2011. 

 

Aki and Scott

www.caribooblades.com 

 

 My body is aching, my fingers and toes skinned

My face hurts to touch and I can't make fists due to ligament injuries

My spirit is unwavering

Looking forward to getting my Nidan and making knives


Crazy Revealing Times

 

 

 https://aarontgood.podbean.com/e/western-capitalist-imperialism-or-the-globalist-cabal-ae172/

https://rumble.com/v4xbnht-the-whistleblowers-campus-protests-and-the-real-news-network-with-chris-hed.html 

Regards,

Aki and Scott

Sunday, December 31, 2023

Wednesday, November 1, 2023