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“I have never found the companion who was so companionable as solitude.” - Henry David Thoreau
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June 1st, 2025
Starting off June right with a short morning reading session. I've accepted that I just don't have the energy for academia after my day job and have adapted accordingly. It's somewhat eerie to visit an empty cafe when they open in the morning! I do appreciate the quiet.
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In the Japanese garden, shizen manifests itself as an apparent naturalness or a serendipitous response to the quirks and vicissitudes of nature. Exploiting the lay of the land, pruning to capture the natural bend of a tree, or following the flow of a stream to a hollow are some examples. Separately, the two kanji for shizen – 自 (ji) and 然 (zen) – mean something like “self” and “duly, thus, or so”, denoting something that is “self as it should be”. Together, they form the noun for “nature”, and when this noun is made into an adjective (shizen-na 自然な), it bears the meaning of “natural” or “spontaneous”.


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#william d. nordhaus#looking back on those days when i admired yale univ sooo much#the last pic is from an op-ed from la times
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Joy Sullivan, from “Culpable”, Instructions for Traveling West
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Sometimes the sunlight sparkling on the lake is reflected on the leaves of this tree. It seems magical every time. Also: birdsong.
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the category is: uwu
Hamabe Minami as Shirasawa Mami Talio Fukushu Daiko no Futari タリオ 復讐代行の2人 2020, dir. Kimura Hisashi, Yamamoto Toru
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