Years of searching for meaning revealed in a minute

I am reading Natalie Goldberg's book Three Simple Lines and she wrote about her visit to Japan tracing Basho's footsteps. Together with her travel companions she meets Harada and his son, who maintains a shrine. …

Japanese builds from the outside in

I am reading Three Simple Lines by Natalie Goldberg and she wrote about this incident where in her trip to Japan, her student Mitsue—who is also a friend and her guide in Japan— told her about someone who wanted …

Interesting is a non-word

In this scene from Matt Ross's movie Captain Fantastic, Viggo Mortensen's character tells his daughter that interesting is a non word, and that she was supposed to avoid it and be more specific. This idea stuck …