California Kobe Dreamin’ on such a winter’s autumn’s daaaay. Today’s deck is BIMIT Big Mice Tarot.
Cute adventuring rats.
Today’s reading talks about how a good balance of mind and heart is achieved by letting go of your baggage and celebrating in the now.
Good advice, gotta say.
Today’s morning didn’t have much novelty to be honest, just a bunch of paperwork being done, chores completed, the usual.
However, I got it in my head to go to that garden I mentioned yesterday so at roughly midday I headed out.
When you get out of Shin Kobe Station, there’s a mall and hotel connected to it, and right outside there’s the connection to the Nunobiki Herb Garden… or to its entrance at least.
You see, you have to take a ropeway to go up, though you could also take a hike up if you felt like it.
Apparently you can go at night?! One thing that stopped me a few times from going was the fact that it closes all really early at like 5PM, but apparently on the weekends you can be there after dark, which means city lights in the distance oh God I need to try that.
The fifth pic above is Nunobiki falls, which I also took a pic of yesterday and pits the scale of everything into perspective, I feel.
There’s three stations. The bottom, middle, and top stops for the ropeway. I got in on the bottom one, and went to the top one. There was some sort of “Christmas market” and German stuff. I didn’t see food, it was all more like snacks and such.
As you walk down there’s a bunch of smaller gardens with different kinds offlowers and trees. Getting to the middle station is actually not that tough… though it’s a constant ramp down and it was hell on my knees. The middle station notably has a bunch of hammocks where you can just… lay. I didn’t because as I’ve mentioned a few times before, being born in Venezuela means I cannot conceive sleeping or resting for too long outside.
In the middle of that path I found a really good spot to take pics with Luna, though I had to rotate a bit to find the right angle, since I wanted there to be yellow trees in the back.
All the while I continued that Nietzche book I started yesterday and I got to a point where I had to ask myself “wait, when was this written?”. First there was a mention of the “black slaves in the south and their white masters”, and then there was a section explaining Nietzche’s opinion on women and comments like women being duplicitous, unable to be honorable like men and so on FROM THE AUTHOR rather than Nietzche made me stop and go “either I’ve been going through an old book and not noticing or this is one ballsy guy to be saying that with any seriousness in the past 20 years.”
Well, turns out the book is at the very least from the 1920s and suddenly everything made sense. Not BETTER, not JUSTIFIED, but it’s less daunting to hear those words from that period where “women working means they have no need for men” was a talking point instead of a concern in fringe circles.
On the way back I was HUNGRY and there was actually a Kobe Beef Museum with a restaurant but I sadly arrived past their Last Order and they next opened at 5PM. Thankfully the station had a Kobe Beef and curry place and while I’m not good with spicy they had a normal plate. It was great.
Not much worth mentioning afterwards though, my knees hurt.