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Catching up

3 weeks ago | pattismith.substack.com | Patti Smith

Hello everyone. Hope all is well. Keep a watch on the air quality because of Canadian wildfire smoke. But if it’s okay take a walk hopefully where you will encounter some trees. When I was very young I believed trees had spirits living in them. Now I know that trees themselves are spirits. Below is Edmund, rehearsing Transcendental Blues at Electric Lady the venue for poetry and beautiful trees in Charleston. This Substack is reader-supported.
A quick hello

1 month ago | pattismith.substack.com | Patti Smith

Saying hello from Nw York City. Where are you?
Pretend Ramen

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Jet lagged book buys

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Peace be with you

1 month ago | pattismith.substack.com | Patti Smith

Some peaceful settings….The first is the tree that the writer Dazai loved. Still healthy and covered with covered in vines and ivy. A friendly tree indeed. Osuma Dazai’s favorite tree, Mitaka
Some thoughts

1 month ago | pattismith.substack.com | Patti Smith

I awoke at 4am with a gnawing sensation. Perhaps it is hunger I was thinking, but it was not my hunger. It was the hunger of another, the hunger of children, the hunger of a people. It was the recognition of their hunger accompanied by a deep sense of shame. That same sensation followed me as I paced through the early hours. I drank water knowing others…
Mitaka

1 month ago | pattismith.substack.com | Patti Smith

While in Tokyo preparing for the exhibit at MOT with Soundwalk Collective I went twice to the Mitaka district. The first was two weeks ago with Ace and Dice, who some of you met in my book M Train. We went to the shrines I wished revisit from our first encounters in 2015. We drove to the Zenrin-ji Temple Cemetery in Mitaka, and paid out respects to the writer Osamu Dazai. There was a waterlogged copy of his masterpiece No Longer Human and a pack of Hope cigarettes.
Kyoto morning walk with crows

1 month ago | pattismith.substack.com | Patti Smith

Early this morning I took a walk down (or up) a path parallel to the river, Mostly because I knew the crows that guard the cemetery would be up calling through the trees lough enough to wake Edgar Alan Poe. The crows are much larger than our crows and completely fearless, crafty and not unfriendly. I took some urban snapshots in Kyoto. There are many beautiful shrines to say nothing of the restored temple of the golden pavilion. But I also like some of the older architecture and random streets.
A day in Hiroshima

2 months ago | pattismith.substack.com | Patti Smith

Hello everybody. It’s midnight in Kyoto. I spent most of the day in Hiroshima. I met and spoke with Keiko Ogura an eighty-eight year old survivor of the atomic bomb, dropped by the United States on her city on August 6, 1945. It was two days before her eighth birthday but she would never celebrate it. The unspeakable things that she witnessed on that terrible morning haunts her to this day.
A long hello from Tokyo

2 months ago | pattismith.substack.com | Patti Smith

Below are fun snaps from Seoul….. Choosing some ginseng powder