I Like Learning New Things

I love these quiet morning hours spent reading, punctuated only by a simple lunch before I resume my reading or writing again. Today, it's chicken porridge. I put in some sesame oil and a dash of soya sauce. Not bad. I'm reading about the Japanese art of woodblock printing (ukiyo-e), a genre that presented 'pictures of the floating world'. I did not know that it was introduced into Japan from China during the Han dynasty. Quite amazing, isn't it?

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Cierzo · M

I am so glad you can have those quiet days. I will envy you now that I am back to work.

novembermoon · 51-55

@Cierzo ' In these mountains where the breath of trees turned to mists, where the mists entered the clouds and fell to earth again as rain, where the rain was absorbed by the roots deep in the earth and drawn out as vapour again by leaves a hundred feet above the ground. The days here opened from beyond one set of mountains and ended behind another, and I came to think of Yugiri as a place lodged somewhere in a crease between daybreak and sunset.'

Oh, the sheer poetry of The Garden of Evening Mists.
Hope you have a nice day in school.