In the previous piece we talked about the story of our trip to Japan, about Japan itself, and about Osaka. Now it's Kyoto's turn. Let's begin. KYOTO: After wrapping things up in Osaka, we set out for Kyoto in the evening so we could start the morning there…
Landing: The first draft of this piece was actually put together about six months ago. But thanks to a number of things getting in the way (laziness, mainly), it's only now that its publication has finally come to pass. In one piece…
In the piece I wrote recently about the flow of time [The Man Whose Capital Is Melting Away], I mentioned I'd be sitting an exam. I sat it fifteen days ago, friends. The result? I failed. See: “We Didn't Make It, Boss”…
Studying for an exam turns into an accidental meditation on time: how the hours we don't count vanish fastest, how "someday" never quite becomes "today," and how, in the end, our capital is time itself — and it is running out.
A clarification, prompted by friends who found the previous piece arrogant: the problem was never dog-drinking-bowls or those who need them cheaply — it's the mindset that turns every long-range ambition into a short-term hustle, and every hustle into everyday small injustices.
A quest for quick money leads two dentists through Amazon affiliate links, TikTok video-watermark removal, plastic button molding, and Chinese dog-drinking-bowls — and toward an uncomfortable diagnosis: it isn't the products that are shabby, it's the vision.
"And say: 'My Lord, let me enter with sincerity and let me exit with sincerity, and grant me, from Your presence, a sustaining authority.'" A blog's first word is a strange thing — spine and epitaph at once.