It's been a while...

So, the original title of this journal was supposed to be 「お久しぶり」 but apparently titles can only contain characters of the roman alphabet, numbers, or some punctuation/symbols...

Anyways, it's been far too long since I last logged on... Mostly because I've been busy, but also because I just haven't felt motivated to do anything artsy in a while...

I'm currently living and working in Japan, which is an incredible experience, but it has also kept me quite busy. Today, however, also marks 3 years since the Great East Japan Earthquake - the devastating earthquake that struck off the eastern coast of the Tohoku region in northern Japan, collapsing buildings, triggering tsunami waves, and ultimately killing thousands of people...

It's strange to think about the fact that that happened three years ago. It seems much more recent (I still vividly remember seeing the breaking news footage on TV late at night), and yet at the same time, it seems like it was so long ago...

I think my JHS did a moment of silence this morning to remember the people who lost their lives, except I was at one of my elementary schools this morning, who I think did their moment of silence in the afternoon, at which point I had finished my classes there and returned to the junior high...

Sorry to go off on a tangent. Hopefully I'll remember to log on more often (since I realized it had been almost a year since the last time I was online here)... and hopefully I'll be inspired and have the time to create more art...

~Cheryl