Kobe-Moriyama I

Sunny, 24C (26C)

This Sunday I will go to see Moriyama for myself--there's only so much you can find out online (and some things are terrifying ; like a proud local tradition of not having restaurants because Moriyama home-cooking is so excellent!--JHC, I hope that's some kind of exaggerated misunderstanding...). Seeing things for myself always calms me down a bit. It's because I don't trust other people about me...

There are things Moriyama definitely doesn't have, like a Synagogue and Nankinmachi and Tokkyu hands and a seller of Dr. Pepper that I know of--and that is detrimental, very detrimental--but then, Moriyama must have other things that Kobe doesn't. I will try to find them, and appreciate them. Of course that doesn't mean I'm not annoyed or irritated with not getting my way--that's just how I am--but maybe, if I nurse it, the two sentiments can fight each other and the one that will make making the best of it a whole lot easier will win.

In Moriyama, in MayJanuary, there is a fire festival held at two different shrines. In Kamakura-period, there was a sick emperor and the cause of his illness was determined to be a dragon. So the dragon was killed and the emperor recovered. When the dragon fell, burning, from the sky, his head landed at one jinja and this body at another. It seems fitting...

Besides, whatever Moriyama is like, I've had worse. So I know how to take care of myself, at least. And I can. Because I have. Mostly.

It'll be okay. I'll be okay. For now, I want to just leave it at that because there are bigger fish to fry.