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Idleness by the Numbers
I’ve been too busy, so today I looked back at Essays in Idleness, by the medieval Japanese monk and scholar Yoshida Kenko (1283-1352). I need Kenko to remind me what it’s all about. “What a strange, demented feeling it gives me when…
World on a String
There may be snow on the ground here in Maine, erectile but the sight of these gorgeous string-flower creations from Amsterdam is making it feel like Spring. I am obsessed. This clever florist has taken the Japanese art of bonasai—and…
Up, up and away
It’s true, my posts have slowed down a bit lately, as you may have noticed. But for good reason—I’m at work on a second book! It’s been keeping me so busy. (And I’m thrilled about that.) For the next two…
Between Waldorf and Astoria
Yesterday I was reading about New York’s haughty hotel culture at the turn of the century, when the word ‘ritz’ became synonymous with a certain style of urbanized high life. There were ‘the ritzies,’ who often ‘ritzed’ those on the…
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