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Streets of Lisbon, Portugal, which if I had never ambled, I fear I might have overlooked the extraordinary Fernando Pessoa and his The Book of Disquiet, some of the most fascinating, and sometimes peculiar, observations on life and mind I have ever read. “I’ve noticed that unhappiness is something you see rather than feel, and joy is something you feel rather than see, because by not thinking and not seeing, you do acquire a certain contentment, like that of mystics and bohemians and utter scoundrels. All unhappiness enters through the window of observation and the door of thought.”

I took this photo in a suburb of Tokyo near a Shinto shrine where a wedding ceremony was taking place. Amidst towering modernity, grace of a bygone era.

What is life? It is the flash of the firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is in the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Crowfoot, Blackfoot Warrior (1830-1890)

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