About

This blog started out as a journal of my year as an English teacher in Japan. Now it’s just a little place for my thoughts.

“Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.”
-Okakura Kazuko, The Book of Tea

“Thinking, tangling shadows in the deep solitude.
You are far away too, oh farther than anyone.
Thinking, freeing birds, dissolving images,
burying lamps.”
-Pablo Neruda, “XVII (Thinking, Tangling Shadows…)” from Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair