Four years ago, the Yakushi-dera, a Buddhist temple in Osaka's Sumiyoshi Ward with a history dating back 400 years, and much beloved of people in its neighborhood, was sold. "A nearby resident warned me, 'Your family grave is going to be moved,'" a 90-year-old resident was quoted as saying. "I went…
Death. It’s the end of everything. Or maybe not – maybe the beginning of everything. Beginning or end, all or nothing, it’s unknown, nothing more so, and terrifying on that account if on no other, and it’s waiting, there’s no escape, except in thought (or thoughtlessness) – and that exit narrows…
We like to think, in the teeth of much evidence to the contrary, that we’re masters of our fate, that as we sow so we reap, that life gives us back what we put into it, and so on. Consider, however, the sinking yen. What the COVID-19 pandemic left standing…
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