So naoto and I have managed to spend the last 6 or 7 years living in THE WORST places you can be in if there is an earthquake. (alameda is built on jelly, it seems)

Here's photos of Tokyo in 1923 after a major earthquake. (cool photos from the us geological survey)

http://www.gliff.org/usgs/location/Japan

So this tsunami disaster really has me thinking. Like it's all ephemeral and I can't hold on to anything.