The Pillow Book
How does the gaze that captures beauty in the fleeting moments of everyday life enrich it?
📝ONGO's Reflection
Reading this collection of essays jotted down by a woman of the Japanese court a thousand years ago, I felt a deep envy of her keen powers of observation and sensitivity. The stillness of a snowy morning, the chatter of birds, even the conduct of a person she finds odious—all become a delicate miniature painting under her brush. Without grand philosophy or sorrow, it brims with love for the small things that make the surface of life glitter. Training a microscope upon our days, in which the senses have grown dull, it whispers that the world is full of fascinating things.
"All things that are small are beautiful."Sei Shonagon, The Pillow Book
"세상의 모든 작고 귀여운 것들은 무조건 사랑스럽다."
🌱Apply It Today
In the midst of an ordinary, repetitive day, take time to savor the fine textures of daily life by keeping your own little lists, like "things that delight me" and "things that grate on me."
