A Sensitivity to Things

I have a confession to make. I've been seeing someone else for a while now...

I had the best of intentions when I started my blog here at Zaadz, but it seems it wasn't to be—we grew apart somehow, became strangers written upon seperate pages.

Right, I'd better stop that train of hyperbole and get to the point—I started my own website several months ago, A Sensitivity to Things, and from that point really haven't given this blog here the attention it deserves. Oh well, such is the over-extended and over-committed life—full of well meaning intentions and all of that...

Anyway, a little about my new site:

“A sensitivity to things” is a translation of the Japanese phrase “mono no aware,” which together with “wabi-sabi” forms the prevailing aesthetic of beauty in Japan. It can also be translated as the “ah-ness” of things, of life and of love, and describes beauty as an awareness of the transience of all things, and a gentle sadness at their passing. As a philosophy, mono no aware can be sourced to Zen Buddhism, and kind of sums up my world-view.”