JAWing On – Life on Okinawa

What have you, as an individual, contributed in the past 10 years? 5 years? lately?

Well the good B-B-Q weather was short lived this year as mini-monsoon season has given way to the first typhoon to blow below us on it’s way to Taiwan. And so the real typhoon season begins once again with the usual pattern being one every seven to ten days for a few weeks and then one every three weeks for a few months. With any luck we will still be able to have some great B-B-Q days in a few weeks.

There is a saying “If you don’t want to hear the answer, don’t ask the question.” If answers are forthcoming and honest, then could it be said that those who do not ask questions or do not want questions asked are not willing to face the answers?

A local creature that stopped by for a munchie at the house this morning.

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Being just a wife with virtually no background in business or political science formal educations, sometimes the ironies of life can raise interesting questions. Such as, how is a hostile takeover of one business by another business group different than “civilized” warfare? Whereas a business is equivalent to an independent country, the CEO equivalent to the leader of a country, the Board of Directors being a War Panel, chief investors being officers, average investors being citizens, and customers being tourists.

One view of dawn on Okinawa.

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What is it with a culture that can’t stand to see two people who are in love and happy being with one another and with their lives? Is it that the people of that culture are so miserable in their own lives that they can’t stand to see anyone else happy?

In social psychology we learned that no act of altruism is done without some form of reward resulting, albeit some motives for reward are more obvious than others. Americans have the saying “Beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing.” Is there a similar phrase in the local dialect?

Do you believe one can understand another’s values by observing behaviors towards other things in the environment?