"…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)
Monday, May 5, 2014
On The Theme of Simplicity
For the last couple of days I feel like I've been cluttered. It seems like I keep bumping into things and dropping things. I generally take that as a sign to simplify. Besides the physical layer of simplification there is also the psychological layer. True simplification happens on both layers, if not simultaneously, then in close proximity to each other. The psychological follows the physical and the physical follows the psychological. It is a beautiful feedback loop. In keeping with the theme of simplicity that should do it for the evening.
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