reading this made me want to learn a new language. but also, it made me want to be a fly on the wall in that bar in Shimanto 81 stops from the nearest express train listening to someone order a drink in the local dialect, and it made me want to be there in that karaoke bar, with soft singing and that sense of being seen, in an impossible way, for all your past selves.
i felt a strange tranquility while reading this piece. thank you.
soul replenishing
beautiful — thank you
I come back to this every now and then.
reading this made me want to learn a new language. but also, it made me want to be a fly on the wall in that bar in Shimanto 81 stops from the nearest express train listening to someone order a drink in the local dialect, and it made me want to be there in that karaoke bar, with soft singing and that sense of being seen, in an impossible way, for all your past selves.
yes, impossible. though one always hopes
rereading this today to feel this lovely feeling again
:)
beautifully written!!
I didn't know that the astronomer's trick had that name.