JAWing On – Life on Okinawa

Saturday December 31, 2005 [C(16/365) R(3/365) W(13/365)]

December 2005 Total:
S-sunny (5/365) C-cloudy (16/365) PC-partly cloudy (10/365)
D-drizzle (4/365) R-rainy (3/365)
W-windy (13/365) LW-light winds (15/365) VW-very windy (1/365)

This Year�s (June 3, 2005 – June 2, 2006) Total:
S- sunny (35/365) C-cloudy (66/365) PC-partly cloudy (111/365)
D-drizzle (16/365) R-rainy (8/365) SR-scattered rain showers (21/365)
W-windy (69/365) LW-light winds (108/365) VW-very windy (6/365)
H-humid (68/365) SH-slightly humid (82/365)

Last night was a perfect example of the lack of understanding of a concept behind a message. When the evening was over I walked into the restroom area only to find a group of persons had graffitied all over the wall-sized mirror. (We normally allow people to leave a “little mark” on the bathroom walls, not the mirror, just to tell the world they were at the club at one point in time.) The reason I say it was a group is because the message was written not only in English, but what appeared to be Spanish, and Kanji as well. (I doubt very much the extensive Kanji was written by a non-native of this area.) The main message on the mirror was “World Peace”, among other sayings pertaining to such. The reason I said that the concept behind the message was lost on these individuals is that the method of delivering the message was anything but peaceable. Never, except in the direst of circumstances – such as to save a life of someone in immediate danger, is causing damage to another person’s property an act of peace, no matter how well intended.