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SHORT #13: A Tree Who Negotiates
There were at least a hundred and thirty people crying that morning, by my count. I couldn’t follow them all home, but I suppose some of them were…
Patrick M. Lydon
Feb 22, 2022
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SHORT #26: Kawaguchi and the Oden Route
a winter day in a small Japanese neighborhood by the trolley station
Patrick M. Lydon
Jan 3
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SHORT#11: The Art of Ignoring Trends
When we lived in Osaka, Suhee and I would go on at least a few early morning bicycle rides every month to explore kissaten (喫茶店)—the small, old coffee…
Patrick M. Lydon
Feb 9, 2022
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SHORT #7: A Bicycle in the Stars
and the process of regaining the twinkle in our eyes
Patrick M. Lydon
Dec 27, 2021
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SHORT #12: The Sacred Water Dragon
A small creek runs through the back of all the homes and shops. Not really a creek though, more like a shallow aqueduct, lined with stone, and just…
Patrick M. Lydon
Feb 16, 2022
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SHORT #16: Merits of the Urban Alley
there are comforts in narrow urban streets with no sidewalks
Patrick M. Lydon
May 19, 2022
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SHORT #24: The Disappearance of Shinjuku
how an entire Japanese city was transformed into a parking lot
Patrick M. Lydon
Dec 6, 2022
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SHORT #10: The Paris Apartment
Ten years ago, no one who lived here could have imagined this transformation
Patrick M. Lydon
Feb 2, 2022
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SHORT #19: Coffee, Burnt Toast & Tobacco
Can tiny neighborhood cafes become a reality in the United States?
Patrick M. Lydon
Sep 7, 2022
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SHORT #23: The Guadalupe Parkway of Juanjuan's Dreams
I wondered why Juanjuan was so excited to see it. We had been friends for twelve years, after meeting along the tree-lined streets of his old Poblenou…
Patrick M. Lydon
Nov 22, 2022
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SHORT #27: Murakami and the Wind Tunnel
morning in a 'Corbusian' Japanese neighborhood
Patrick M. Lydon
Jan 17
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SHORT #8: Cities in Darkness
Arriving to Yvette during the day, the city seems not so much different from the one before it, or the one after. A train station with a few shops…
Patrick M. Lydon
Jan 3, 2022
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