"…Living only for the moment, turning our full attention to the pleasures of the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms and the maple leaves; singing songs, drinking wine, diverting ourselves just floating, floating….refusing to be disheartened, like a gourd floating along with the river current; this is what we call the floating world…” Asai Ryoi, in Ukiyo Monogatari (Tales of the Floating World, 1661)
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Small Things
Today turned into a day of small things. Life is wrapped in the small things of course, interwoven in all the intricate little details of living. There are times when we need to just simply pay attention to the small things. That was today for me. I was just thinking about the strangeness of writing a longer blog entry about small things. So, let me simply wrap it up here. Today, I paid attention to the small things.
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