In the year 1330 an officer at the Japanese imperial palace retired to become a Buddhist monk.
His name was Yoshida Kenkō, and here are 18 pearls of wisdom from his famous Tsurezuregusa, the Essays in Idleness.
In a distracting world, here's a different way to think...
I wish every single person in the West would listen to Putin's speech. Obviously, that won't happen so let me summarise as a professional translator for 10+ years. He states, as he has done from the outset, what his intentions and complaints are in the plainest terms possible.🧵