The 2am thread

theres an intersection I drive through called Akasaki, which translates to Redcliffs. That's A suburb in my hometown I have no emotional connection to save for a Japanese doctor and his family who lived there a short duration in my childhood.

We visited the islands he lives at in the Sea of Japan and i was enchanted for the first time then by life in the temperate seas

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Orion is visible on crisp cool nights and it always has been in all the skies I've lived under. I read in halting Japanese the story of Orion and Scorpio and saw them in the same sky once and only in the McKenzie basin. When I get home to New Zealand next year I'm going on a drive to gorgeous fuckwhere to see the sky again like that and I'm not sure if I'll suffer any companions on that road trip