I further propose that we all acknowlege our feelings for our sick friend by typing
/me misses sensei
in the open space of your homenode. Please keep him in your hearts and minds. Thanks.
/me misses sensei.
c'mon, ye God or gods... please bring him safely back soon.
To see my more emotional addition, go here.
For sensei's response, go here.
The first time I "met" sensei in the chatterbox, he was helping someone out. He helped me out too, when I was just beginning.
I miss his calm voice, always patient with the newbies, and always helpful. He rarely seemed to get annoyed with noders who were driving everyone else up the wall (though maybe he'll read this and say, I really came off like that? What is this girl smoking?).
I don't know why, but just seeing his name at the top of the Other Noders list was somehow comforting to me as a newbie. I felt like there was someone I could ask questions to, and not get laughed at.
/me misses sensei too.
Yeah man - get well and get back here. We all miss your voice of seasoned reason, and seasoned recipes too.
Ahh... sensei - supremely patient, always helpful, respected and adored by all who knew him.
/me misses sensei too. The nodegel is not the same without you.
Come back and share more of your knowledge and wisdom.
Especially on Japanese food.
To be honest, the only direct interaction I ever had with him was when he placed one of my nodes on the Page Of Cool. He sent me a /msg telling me, and I sent one thanking him for telling me. (I was wary. It was right after the flood of Stop thanking me for C!ing your writeup! nodes)
But not for putting it there? he wanted to know. Oh yes, definitely for putting it there. I guess you're not one of the people that hate getting thank yous for C!'s and such' Oh, no. Politeness is always in order, it rotates the cogs that keep the nodegel fresh'
I liked that, I like the way he stated very simply without saying it that E2 is a community, and a microcosm of real world, and should work with civility as such.
Even so, this having been my only interaction with him, he was always around, and he has that funky dai un on his homenode. And reading his nodes, (not just the recipes,) I find myself wanting to softlink Some things Sensei has tried to teach me to each of them. And (like I'm one to talk about this) the catbox frivolity can still use some sake or moshi or whatever it is he's always handing out in the midst of chaos.
I miss sensei, he's in my thoughts, I can only hope the best for him.
I only talked to him a few times, but there was so much wisdom and friendliness in even the manner in which he sent his /msgs. I could tell I would never get to experience as much of the person behind them as I would like.
I can't possibly put my feelings into words at finding out about this.
He's just this completely unfaseable guy who never ever gets angry or personal or side tracked. You can always count on him to be friendly and to the point. It makes for an astounding intellect.
His Japanese poetry nodes are a boon for the ages - these are his own translations, you know. I never would have known any of this stuff if it wasn't for him. Domo arigato, sensei.
It's so good to have him around - like a security net. Always there to tell you when you had a typo, well in advance of the downvoting vultures. Always there to bounce an idea off or to intervene in a catbox argument with a calm remark or a zany joke that would diffuse the situation and make everyone instantly realise how silly they're being. Always there to offer sound noding advice.
I won't speak of him in the past tense. I won't, I won't, I won't.
I will never have his patience or gentle good nature, but my interactions with him have made me want to try to be a nicer person. I do not know if I believe in a God or any Gods, nevertheless, Sensei will be in my prayers.
take care, over there and remember where you came from;
take flight ((angel-like)) with second sight and wisdom.
/me misses sensei very much. get well & come back soon friend.
Sensei has been an example of the kind of self control, understanding, and literary skill that I aspire to every day.
Dialogue misses sensei
Come back soon, bungou.
I never really spoke with sensei, being a new noder. However, today, in between some end-of-semester work that I've been doing, I read what people have been writing about him. Then I did a search on him, and read twenty of thirty of his writeups.
To quote The Matrix, WOW! The editor logs were creative, not just a list of things killed and cooled. The other writing showed real insight too. It's weird to think that you can know someone without ever actually meeting that person, but I can honestly say that I did. Sensei is one of the most eloquent and gifted writers I've encountered in my life.
I'm not one to jump on a convenient bandwagon or to write a 'me too' writeup on a node that seems to be attracting cools. I didn't post this until my thoughts were in order beyond any possible doubt.
Sensei, you have my best wishes for a speedy recovery. I've never met you, I've never even communicated with you in any one-on-one manner, which I have with many other noders, but I honestly feel that I know you. I want to know you better. Your name here means, as far as I can recall, something between teacher, elder and mentor. Although I may never meet you, you've been all of those to me. You have my best wishes for a long and happy life. You've been there for many of us on Everything2. And, by extension, through keeping many of my friends on this site, you've been there for me.
I was having a small dilemma regarding the daylogs recently, and my first thought was to msg sensei.
Then I remembered.
sensei was the first person to make me feel welcome here. He /msg'd me and told me that one of my nodes was good. It felt better than any ching, or any upvote could be.
I've never seen him lose patience with anyone, I've never seen him give criticism that wasn't constructive, and I've never seen him be less than helpful. When I'm talking to newbies or offering suggestions or corrections, I try to emulate his approach -- but I don't do it as well as he does.
And as for his nodes ... well, you don't want to hear me talk about them, just go read them. It'll take you a while, but it will be time well spent.
I hope he's feeling better, and I hope he'll be back with us soon.
I miss him dispensing advice and teaching with unflagging good grace and humor. I miss his recipe nodes, which I've learned not to read before lunch.
I'd like to close with a haiku:
The nodegel cries out For our kind gentle teacher Get well soon, sensei
Do some thoughtful noding -- something that calls for extra effort in thought, research, exploring all sides of an issue -- and dedicate it to sensei's health.
In Jewish history, when a great rabbi (rabbi = teacher = sensei) had fallen ill, it was customary for his students to offer a few weeks or months from their own lifespans in order to extend the rabbi's life.
Would you do so? Then node with great care, great love, and great dedication, because you will be noding for sensei until he can do so himself.
To sensei's health!
Please also see Sensei And Stuff
You are a true mentor, and a person worth looking up to.
Hmm ... Perhaps E2 should partition its nodespace into GTKY side and BOK side. Perhaps a GTKY flag (similar to the C! flag) that can be set by the noder and/or by the editor/gods.
Cletus the Foetus misses sensei.
Sensei, you have inspired me in Node your homework!, amused me with Ack! Summer Is Almost Over And I Forgot To Shave The Cat!, and taught me much (and made me very hungry) in your nodes about Japanese food and culture. Every node of yours I have read is a veritable work of art. As I have begun my explorations of E2, I have learned to stop and read anything written by you. Arigato gozaimasu, Sensei!
Being relatively new here, I am sad to say I have never had the opportunity to interact with you. I look forward to the day when you return and I can do such a thing. May you recover speedily and easily, and may the trees smile upon your brow!
I've been lucky enough to get 2 replies to /msgs from sensei during his extended leave. Now that I'm on holiday for Christmas I have a bit more time to node, and so, as sensei seems to like them so much I will be noding more recipes. It won't be the same without him to C! them though.
Sensei, please don't hurry back. Take the time to recover fully. Breathe deep. Marvel at your surroundings. As you do so, we will be breathing over your shoulder. I'm the one with the nicotine smelling breath
Without Sensei's guidance, I wouldn't still be on everything, and I would still be a l33t d00d. It all started one morning long ago, after a bad test grade and during my depression (which relatively wasn't that bad, more typical teen angst than anything). I came onto everything in a destructive state of mind, and started bashing nodes, trying to create trouble in the nodegel. I wanted to break something, and everything seemed an easy target. I left feeling better, but not for a reason I would have guessed: sensei and knifegirl both /msg'ed me, and rather than being outraged, as most would have been, they were understanding. Sensei agreed: there was a lot of bad noding on everything, but rants were not the way to make it better. They gently nuked my nodes, and a feeling of peace, corny as it may sound, swept over me. It didn't just affect my noding (I actually left everything2 for a while to concentrate elsewhere) but also the rest of my life: I became more understanding, I waited before acting. People noticed: I've been elected to my Church advisory board, and am no longer depressed. But does anyone know that it was all due to 2 people, one of whom was the ever understanding sensei, whom I've never met, never seen, never even heard their voice? Sensei was right: these relationships are not virtual at all, but very real.
I've made mistakes, but I don't regret them - they've helped me to grow. I've lost loves, but I don't regret loving them - now I'm more cautious, but when I love, I love stronger. I've hurt others, but don't regret that because it's allowed our relationships to blossom and change. In all things in my life, I try not to regret what I do, because what I do is what makes me who I am.
But I do have one regret.
I regret not having met sensei. I regret not having had my life enriched by his experiences. I regret that I never had a chance to share in his wonderful chatterbox chatter, or his advice to newbies.
But along with regret, I have hope.
I hope to meet sensei some day. To share in his wisdom, To be blessed by his presence.
Can you miss someone without having met them? I don't know - but if you can, then I miss sensei.
Get well soon.
I will admit, I have never spoken to sensei - be it in the catbox, or in person.
However, sensei's writeups are great. He has lots of informative nodes, many regarding food and food items. I followed the directions in his How To Cook The Perfect Steak node, and came out with a really tasty steak.
While looking through sensei's writeups, you will find lots of interesting stuff - many dealing with Japanese cuisine. His work is painfully accurate, and very informative. It's the type of stuff that doesn't drone on forever. You don't get tired of reading sensei-nodes. Be careful, though. You might even trip over a bit of wisdom here and there.
So while sensei and I don't know one another (and chances are, he doesn't know I even exist), I still feel it necessary to express my best wishes for him. He may not have spoken directly to me, but he speaks to everyone through his writings.
And he sure knows how to cook!
• Accipiter misses sensei.
As a newbie I had only just picked up on the magnitude of the loss of Sensei's constant presence in e2 when I was suddenly elated to see his name appear briefly a few days ago in the Other users nodelet with a sweet /msg about having 600 /msgs to get through in the Chatterbox.
I have an image of him diligently plugging away at all those /msgs, cup of tea at hand, feeling better and soon to return.
May it be so.
Today, while mining the depths of aged superdocs, I stumbled upon and read a node I'd forgotten about. The dim world of my tiny, windowless office dissolved around me. Alone at my dark desk, lit only by the phosphor glow of monitors, I wept for a man I barely knew and never met. And I felt no shame.
It's been more than a year since last I've heard any word of his condition and I doubt I'll ever know more than "he was here, and now he is gone." Although I'm not sure he knew, his advice, his actions are largely responsible for the type of noder I've become. His influence is responsible for the change in my style of writing and my approach to other users. Without his kind, and I imagine soft, words I likely would not have become an admin.
And yet, those are relatively small things in the scope of my world. What may seem incredulous to him and others is how much effect he had on my life outside E2. I feel that I've become a calmer, more rational, and better person. As clichéd as it seems I've attempted to live my life by his standard, as I knew it. Sometimes I've succeeded, other times I've failed. Failure though, is a necessary path to success.
Do I miss sensei? Yes, I miss talking with him. I miss listening to him. I miss learning from him. Do I miss HIM though?
No.
I will not miss him until he's forgotten. I realize that seems like a paradox, but every time I think of him, he is with me, in spirit if not in form. I hear his words as I imagine he would speak them, and his memory guides me down the path to wisdom.
Good journey friend, You will be remembered.
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