To Facebook or Not to Facebook?

Is that the question?

Or is it something else, like maybe

"If someone takes video of a tree falling in the forest and doesn't post it to Facebook, does it make a sound?"

I don't know the answer to either of those. For the past two months I've been over 99% Facebook free. I won't go into all the why's and how for's for my absence other than to state my belief that some are better fit for social media stuff than others. Blame it on being of the "all or nothing" or "everything in excess" variety of human. All in all the break has been good for me. That said I have missed seeing more'n a few who I liked to follow on there. I've wondered who I didn't wish happy birthday or what other event(s) in friend or relative or met on Facebook fellow earthly traveler's life I missed. And of course after years and years of sharing all about my favorite subject--MY LIFE!--I've been tempted to sign on and share life stuff around here.  Putting it away for a couple month's has been self-revealing though--it's helped me to get a clearer look at myself and after a few weeks away a lot of the social media user mental noise quieted down. That's been nice I must say.

So nice that I don't see myself going back on to the degree that I've used it for the past... Good gosh what's it been? Around eight years now I think. Like the title of this blog I opened up ten years ago and never did much with (even forgot I even had it for a few years) "Inochi Mujo" いのち無常
Life is Transience
Change is inevitable
Nothing's set in stone. For all I know I'll be back to doing FB and this in a month or year or ten years from now. For all I know Russian trolls will have convinced Trump supporter Facebook users to wear their MAGA underpants on their head by tomorrow. You just never can tell. (If by chance they've already started doing that my bad. I've been spending less time on the Internet as well) Basically life just got even busier and I've been leaning this direction for a while so that's that.

Besides, I've found writing blogs without the slightest inkling on how to blog to be quite interesting.  I'd written all of three or four in ten years time so with this recent decision to change up how to spend online time I transferred a couple favorite tales I'd posted to FB on here (still searching for others), wrote a few new ones and learned that with a single blog entry thingamajig post whatever ya call it page on here I can keep a running account of OMG is this for real! American politics.  That's a dandy I've about laughed or cried myself silly putting it together.  Warning: Read at your own risk.

But nuff said

I'll end this'n with a few of the happenings in these parts over the past couple of months.

The kids all started a new school year in the beginning of April. (no first day of nursery school for the little one so here's a shot of her sitting on my head instead ;)

"Daddy sampo?" (let's go for a walk) The self-imposed rule's remained never say no.

oldest boy testing newly rebuilt backyard homemade
jungle gym

New friends arrived with spring

Mother's Day was in there somewhere.
Nothing but the finest riverbank flowers for the mom in this house! 

We got in a Golden Week trip to USMC and Japan SDF "Friendship Day" at  Camp Fuji

Younger boy remote controlling a bomb
squad robot

Fuji san at sunset in Gotemba

Then there was a little weekend excursion to catch newts in Tanna

Which we did after visiting MOA Museum of Art in Atami per the excellent suggestion of friends who stopped by on their way to Tokyo 

There were a couple track meets in there too, a Golden Week hike with the boys and of course other common shenanigans such as bird riding rodent tricks and what not.

So that's some happenings from these parts. 

If things stay on an even keel I'll allow myself back in there to click a like or three. Till then if you found this from there please know I'm still trudging this life path with ya'll in spirit--happy, joyous and free in the Here and Now. Or doing my best to be at least ;) 

Jya ne, Cheers!