Βρεκεκεκεξ κοαξ κοαξ “Brekekekex koax koax” — Aristophanes, Frogs Even after ten months in Japan, I am still a foreigner. Not in the bureaucratic sense: I can navigate the train system, order a teishoku without faltering, and mumble polite acknowledgments at the right pitch and frequency. But foreignness persists elsewhere in
“The true character of a person is revealed by their involuntary actions…Ethics is not about reason and will repressing our nature, but about changing our disposition so that we act morally out of sentiment, instinctively.”— Schiller ‘On the Aesthetic Education of Man, in a Series of Letters.’ 🌱 Where Beauty
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” — William Faulkner In the shadowed heart of Mount Kōya, where the cedars rise like pillars of an ancient cathedral, lies Oku-no-in, Japan’s largest cemetery and one of its holiest sites. I walked into it not as a
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