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An Anton Cavka Story: The Power of Three

By bluebeltlife November 13, 2015 Uncategorized
An Anton Cavka Story: The Power of Three

I was lucky to live my first 32 years without losing a friend to anything other than distance and diverging interests. That streak ended last weekend with the death of a great man, a great friend, Anton Cavka. Anton barged into my life through Pete, a mutual friend in the party circuit in Tokyo. Shotgunning beers in his Harajuku office/house is among my earliest, hazy memories of hanging out with him. I reveled in his stories of alcohol-fueled insanity, female conquest, and the legend of his right cross from God. He was loud, bold, but with the humility necessary to know he was not everything – in his own words,…

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Guest Post: How I Beat Cancer by Disregarding Everything Chris Has Told You

By bluebeltlife May 4, 2015 Blue Belt Weekly, Guest Post
Guest Post: How I Beat Cancer by Disregarding Everything Chris Has Told You

Hello again BBL readers. I’m back for my long overdue and hopefully anticipated follow-up to my first and only guest post on the Blue Belt Life blog. It has been nearly a year since I stayed at the Blue Belt household in Tokyo and attempted to adhere to Chris’s strict vegetarian, no alcohol diet. Trips to the farmer’s market at Yurakucho filling backpacks with vegetables, eating rice, homemade butter and concoctions of vegetables that I didn’t know existed and fighting the temptation to go anywhere near meat or booze (although I did eat quite a bit of sushi as Chris conceded going full vegie would be near impossible from my starting…

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