When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?
October 2025
I had the privilege of experiencing the beginning of fall on the other side of the world. Nara, Japan, was my home for 16 days,

