The Japanese “Komorebi” translates as “sun filtering through the leaves of trees”
The closest English translation: “dappled” from the Scandinavian “depill” BUT
In its most magical origins, rooted in 14c dapple-gray to compare markings of a horse to an apple. Oh unnamed beauty
We live on a planet where trees communicate, octopuses dream, elephants honor their dead, bees dance to find their way, crows remember, ants build, cats heal with their purring, and the forest, after the fire, blooms again.
You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?
—Anne Carson, from "The Glass Essay"
happy new year. remember that the ethic you develop about you is in the subtle, the small, the micro decisions you make about the ways you think, feel, act. there is no gesture so small that doing it consistently wont change you. you are always free to change. love you. be good
Brooklyn Italian man behind the counter at the dispensary who was smoking cigs inside the other day checks my ID and goes “heh, Massechusetts heh? My sista lives in Andovah.” then gets real solemn and goes “you can’t buy Newports there… makes no sense to me…”
Me neither, pal.
Because of @Ryanair_ES fuck ass costumer service I’m missing a lorde concert in Glasgow tonight….never fly @Ryanair if you love yourself and enjoy being happy and having fun
Be in love, go to the aquarium. Eat the Korean fried chicken. Go to the park, next visit the aquarium. Laugh in the rain. Go on a long walk, to the aquarium. Have sushi with a Sapporo, hit the bar at noon. Feel the breeze on your skin. Get a shark tooth necklace at the aquarium.
lots of “stomp-clap” music discourse but not enough on the 2000’s phenomena that I like to refer to as “recruitment rock”
bands like Three Doors Down, Avenged Sevenfold and Godsmack that were designed in a lab with the sole purpose of getting young men to join the National Guard