There are over a hundred Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines in Kamakura – still so many I have never been to.
With the savagery being perpetrated in the Middle East – soul-tearingly awful and so upsetting – I suddenly felt like a moment of quiet peace and reflection after briefly meeting d for coffee on his lunch break ( it has been such a lonely year ! ) and then cycling off to the junk shop to buy some cheap and colourful rubbish – and a bottle of Elizabeth Arden’s Green Tea – which is nicer than I remember.
Yes I know, all this random flotsam we keep accruing is very meaningless in the deep and horrible scheme of things…. I can hardly muster up rage in the way I used to because part of my soul has been incinerated in several ways ( I now have a kind of void of sadness in the place my extreme anger used to be and my writing has possibly suffered as a result, forgive me …..but that man…. my god… )
Still, we go on. Even with wincing limbs and all our other troubles : to set foot in a peaceful place – today Anyoin temple for the first time, was a quiet breath of serenity.
This too shall pass.
Buddhist temples never cease to inspire me – from the vivid, jewel-toned exuberance of Tibetan architecture to the quiet minimalism of Japanese design.
Green Tea by Elizabeth Arden is timeless, if only the sillage matched its charm.
Yes – but that in itself is a charm in a place like J I think – i will probably wear it when back at work as a light occasional dab
I hope that this too shall pass and That “Man” (if that’s what you want to call him) will also soon be a “thing” from the past. He is so horrific and disgusting.
I mean ax you know I would rant and rave about him in the past to the point of madness… I just can’t anymore even though he gets worse and worse
How are you and millions of sane Americans faring with what he is doing to your country ?
Sooner rather than later, I hope…
Green Tea is one I kept in the fridge until recently, to spritz on a hot summer day when I didn’t need a fragrance to last. Always refreshing and effortless.
Yes – perfectly expressed. Might have to copy your idea and refrigerate !
I also truly don’t always want a fragrance to last too insistently – the fleeting and evanescent is underrated
To be fair, I never thought of keeping perfumes in the fridge until I read about it from other perfumistas. Some days certainly call for fleeting fragrances.
Especially in Japan ! Beast mode really smells so WWWWWRRROONGGGG here
We are all exhausted as it just gets worse and worse…
It truly does ..
How do you keep yourself sane ?
I have become uncomfortably numb.
So you must be locked in your upper chamber doing your suffocating gorgeous perfume thing
Would love to join you with a bottle or two of your choice red