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While running along a particularly dark area of the Shakujii gawa tonight I reached up to grab a tree branch, unaware that there was a large thorn precisely where I was grasping. There was a momentary resilience of skin followed by rapid puncture and slice. I was sweating heavily from the run, so continually wiping my face and not realizing that I was smearing blood all over my cheeks and forehead. In retrospect, the perplexed and nervous expressions on the faces waiting at the Takinogawa traffic signal now make sense.

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12:14 JST, no traffic, but still waiting for the Takinogawa signal to change from red to green. I look down and down is looking up. Over one month later on a dark and stormy night it will surprise me again.

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Harvest moon viewing with red, green, and yellow traffic signals. Why couldn’t traffic signals be in red, green, and blue – the additive primary colors?