Archive - The Deep Rest Salon

japanese literature for slow reading

for quiet, summer afternoons and candlelit evenings

Jun 27 •

you are a river

you're more creative than you think

Jun 6 •

May 2025

Is written, one sentence at a time.

May 22 •

there are seasons for everything

poetry shapes the way we see the world.

May 14 •

April 2025

doing hard things (gently)

I moved to tokyo, a year ago

Apr 10 •

elements of style

Apr 4 •

March 2025

sleeping beneath the pomegranate tree

writing a life of luxury

Mar 14 •

when I talk about beauty

I am not talking about pretty things

Mar 5 •

February 2025

blossoms in the dark

It is freezing outside, almost devastatingly so.

Feb 16 •

January 2025

holding hands in the dark

it is not wrong to want to live off your art

Jan 27 •

quiet is powerful

you know it is.

Jan 24 •

wherever you go, there you are

the natural world is always within you

Jan 7 •

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