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Shobashi comes alive at night. From appearances, it’s a dump. And from sundown to sun-up, on the third floor of a building throbbing with karaoke reverb, you’ll find the bar where Makiko works, five nights a week, from seven until around midnight.
Mieko Kawakami, Sam Bett, • Breasts and Eggs
24 GORGEOUS YEARS. There is no letter that could possibly express the entirety of this moment or the two and a half decades that have come before it. The unbelievable LOVE, DEVOTION, GRATITUDE, AND SUCCESS of it ALL. An impossible task. I know I will have so much more to say, but for now, a letter and a thousand thank yous. Here’s to holding death and birth with the same grace and reverence, knowing that they cannot exist without the other. ♾️ What a beautiful dance it is. 🫀 THANK YOU AND I LOVE YOU. Yours Always (in transformation and evolution 🔥), Mara
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A little after two, we made it back to Minowa, the closest station to my place. Stopping along the way for a 210-yen bowl of noodles, we braved the heat and walked the ten minutes home, while the cries of cicadas smeared the atmosphere.
Mieko Kawakami, Sam Bett, • Breasts and Eggs
Yoshinori Hara, dean and professor at Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Management, says these long-standing entities, at least 100 years old, are known as ‘shinise’ – literally meaning ‘old shop’.
Hara, who worked in Silicon Valley for a decade, says that Japanese companies’ emphasis on sustainability, rather than quick ma... See more
Japanese Zen Sayings - 為君葉々起清風 - For you, the bamboo leaves stir up a cool breeze. - www.hon-on.com
youtube.com“We are in the habit of imagining our lives to be linear, a long march from birth to death in which we mass our powers, only to surrender them again, all the while slowly losing our youthful beauty. This is a brutal untruth. Life meanders like a path through the woods. We have seasons when we flourish and... See more