Songs That Spin in Circles
Soundtracks for Everyday Adventures
- Growing Up
- A Runaway Kite
- Going to Buy Some Strawberries
- An Inherited Record Collection
- Finding a Leaf in Your Girlfriend's Hair
- An Older Couple Holding Hands
- Checking Things Off of a To-Do List Early in the Morning
- Riding a Bike Down a Big Hill and Taking Your Feet Off of the Pedals
- The Best Paper Airplane Ever
- A Picture of Your Grandparents When They Were Young
- Little Things Swimming Under a Microscope
- Clapping Contest
- The Kind of Song You Make Up in Your Head When You Are Bored
- Brass Practice
- Listening to Raindrops Knocking on a Window
Thinking About Thursdays
- trying something again (again)
- a photograph from the day you were born
- how frost grows
- a blanket of snow spotted from under the blankets in bed
- symptoms of a scatterbrain
- window weather
- cooped up at home with a fever and a tape loop
- an inappropriate Valentine’s Day gift
- for all the forgotten resolutions
- the extra opportunities of a leap year
- with the posture of a melting snowman
- two turntables and a casiotone
- how I broke my parents’ record player (when I was five)
- aboard Korean Air flight 742 to Seoul
- working from a park bench
- puddles full of petals (of Sakura)
- drops evaporating back up into the clouds
- a big breath of pollen
- a collage of cut up flowers
- like a honey bee on holiday
- returning overdue library books
- tool belts are the cool belts
- trying to (not) work in beautiful Barcelona
- a hometown hero
- lawn games
- father‐son adventures
- an indecisive relationship with air conditioning
- polyphonic ping pong
- concrete waves
- river riding
- coin operated car washes
- the existential dilemma of a melting ice cream cone
- reading by a pool
- the precarious journey of a piece of lost luggage
- transition into September
- leisure gardening
- migration patterns
- autumnal equinox (shūbun no hi)
- train ticket to Tokyo
- as night falls earlier each day
- another word for productivity
- asleep on an airplane
- masters of Italian cinema
- there go the leaves, one by one
- sometimes it’s hard to even imagine a bright side
- getting back up
- studying a pine cone
- how to tie a scarf
- forgotten formats
- skipping ahead
- handmade presents
- finishing something you worked really hard on
