Pigeon's Poop

*Important Announcement* Pigeon Dynamite will be donating 20% of its profit made between Nov 1st to Dec 25th 2013  to UNICEF USA to help children affected by super typhoon in Philippine  for more information, please go to UNICEF website and check details in Pigeon Dynamite facebook page . Image from https://www.ccmuseum.com/event/kids-corner-the-science-of-thanksgiving/ Pigeon Dynamite would like to wish all of you a very happy Thanksgiving!     image from http://newlifecs.net/bsm-thanksgiving-dinner-tonight-3/ And that does not exist in Japan.   image from http://tresgatosjp.com/2012/11/20/thanksgiving-black-friday/ *重要なお知らせ* Pigeon Dynamite は11月1日からクリスマス迄の売り上げの20％を フィリピンの子供を支援する為アメリカンユニセフ を通して寄付します。 詳しくはFacebookのオフィシャルページ、 日本ユニセフ 迄。  今日はアメリカは収穫祭と呼ばれるファミリーホリデーです！ 主に家族で集まって七面鳥を食べる、とにかく食べる事がメインのホリデーです。 Happy Thanksgiving! love, from Pigeon Dynamite    

*Important Announcement* Pigeon Dynamite will be donating 20% of its profit made between Nov 1st to Dec 25th 2013  to UNICEF USA to help children affected by super typhoon in Philippine  for more information, please go to UNICEF website and check details in Pigeon Dynamite facebook page . Morning Relay / Shuntaro Tanikawa While a young man in Kamchatka Dreams of a giraffe A young girl in Mexico Waits for the bus in the morning haze While a little girl in New York Rolls over in her bed with a smile A little boy in Rome Winks at the morning sun that colors the column capital On this Earth Always, somewhere,  morning is starting We are relaying morning From longitude to longitude Taking turns protecting Earth, as it were Prick up your ears awhile before you go to sleep And, somewhere, far away,  you'll hear an alarm clock ringing It's proof that someone has firmly caught The morning you've passed on *重要なお知らせ* Pigeon Dynamite は11月1日からクリスマス

*Important Announcement* Pigeon Dynamite will be donating 20% of its profit made between Nov 1st to Dec 25th 2013  to UNICEF USA to help children affected by super typhoon in Philippine  for more information, please go to UNICEF website and check details in Pigeon Dynamite facebook page . I've been talking about various kinds of things on this blog despite the fact that sometimes I felt that I should be talking about my jewelry ( Pigeon Dynamite ) more often. And I honestly feel every post I've made so far has been more personal than I initially planned. It's probably because I like reading materials to be meaty and more real. I don't find "oh, everything is great, every day is wonderful" kind of things-really, pretty much with any thing that has superficial, pretentious kind of shiny coated things-interesting or attractive. And this time, I wanted to talk about something that is quite personal to me, but more importantly, felt more necessary

The finale of the series is my favorite love and hate relationship city, Osaka; the second largest economy city in Japan after Tokyo. It is an industrial, merchants city.  Osaka is a sister city of Chicago, San Francisco, Shanghai, and other major cities all over the world. Osaka city locates almost center of Osaka prefecture, which consists with 32 other cities, 9 towns and 1 village.  There are 22 cities that have more than 100,000 population each in Osaka prefecture. I grew up in one of 24 districts in Osaka city, which I used to think it was like living in ghetto for life (well..because it's known for pretty bad reputation for snatching and stuff) but now I really know it was rather a nice, peaceful neighborhood. The district with little over 130,000 population is known for the highest foreigner population in the city of Osaka and many are Korean and Chinese immigrants. Since I grew up in the community where kids didn't care where we came from or what we are,