simplicity

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“The Japanese sense of beauty has long sharply differed from its Western counterpart: it has been dominated by a love of irregularity rather than symmetry, the impermanent rather than the eternal and the simple rather than the ornate. The reason owes nothing to climate or genetics, but is the result of the actions of writers, painters and theorists, who had actively shaped the sense of beauty of their nation.”
— Alain de Botton

contemplation

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I would love to have had these two photos in one, because they happened at exactly the same time. The person you see seated to the right of the little girl is the gentleman in the first picture. Separately I like the pictures but I think together they tell such an interesting story.