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Look into the mirror and regard one more wrinkle, one more gray hair. The proper mono no ware attitude is not to call up for an appointment at the beauty parlor but to gaze, find things going as they must and therefore should and, if possible, smile.
[Donald Ritchie, Foreward to Vanishing Japan: Traditions, Crafts & Culture.]
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“What are you going to study at Sydney University?”
This question (our conversation was in French) came from my father, a man whose wisdom, insight and perceptiveness had come partly from his reading but more so from experience. A boy during the Russian Revolution, he had been deracinated by that event, winding up in France where he took part in the campaign of France in 1940 as a young soldier in the French army.
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This letter was sent by an American living in Sendai to her loved ones after the 9.0 earthquake and tsunami in Japan (March 11, 2011).
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There’s something beautiful about an old watering can, but it’s got to be a metal can, nothing plastic that predictably hardens, chips, and discolors uniformly with age. No, only real watering cans have Shibui. They have character because there’s something endearing in their unique scruffiness.
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Looking outward through the dark redwood frame of an open pavilion window onto lush garden greenery clears one’s mind for looking inward.
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