This Town

Quote from Craig Thompson’s Good-bye, Chunky Rice

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Tangled Hair

Pale handsome priest
Can you not see
The girl lost in dreams
By the tree of pink blossoms
This spring evening?
                             –Yosano Akiko

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Compensation

For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for every thing you gain, you lose something.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Prelude

I spent this weekend as a shameless tourist, snapping photos like crazy. Yellow dust drifted into Seoul yesterday, so the pictures are a bit on the hazy side.
Unfortunately, I'm way too tired to write or download photos right now. So I'll leave you with a quote I found in Lotus Lantern, a magazine for English-speaking Seon (the [...]

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The Hand That Feeds

While getting ready for my Korean language course, I decided to play a little Nine Inch Nails to speed things up.
It’d been a while since I’d played some NIN, but after an entire month of belting Mariah during that god-awful NYer Infatuation aka Period of Shame (“No, no, no no no no noooooo / I need [...]

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Entrance at Sunset

"Words are not the highest reality, nor what is expressed in words the highest reality.

Why? Because the highest reality is an experience which cannot be entered into by means of statements regarding it.

The mind must be in a state of wistom to understand wisdom."–Buddhist passage
Entrance to Hwa Gye Sa Temple on Sam Gak Mountain

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