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I am in DC, surviving on the generosity of friends and a dwindling bank account as I look for work in our nation’s capital. Ideally, I’ll find something in trail advocacy or historical and environmental preservation (perhaps all three!). So far my interviews have been wonderful and the planners I’ve met here, exceptional.<\/p>\n

Dr. Tanaka is now in Matsue, Japan at the Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Conference so perhaps already a new audience is aware of my research into Hearn’s mentor, Henry Watkin, and the neighborhood Watkin helped to found, Bond Hill.<\/p>\n

Please forgive me as I raise the price for purchasing Bond Hill: Origin and Transformation<\/em> as I need all the help I can get surviving being a bohemian for the upcoming few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am in DC, surviving on the generosity of friends and a dwindling bank account as I look for work in our nation’s capital. Ideally, I’ll find something in trail advocacy or historical and environmental preservation (perhaps all three!). So far my interviews have been wonderful and the planners I’ve met here, exceptional.<\/p>\n

Dr. Tanaka . . . → Continue reading: Washington, DC<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bond-hill","category-planning","odd"],"yoast_head":"\nWashington, DC • Aharon's Omphalos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2004\/09\/washington-dc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Washington, DC • Aharon's Omphalos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I am in DC, surviving on the generosity of friends and a dwindling bank account as I look for work in our nation’s capital. 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