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Spring Back (The Blossom and the Memory)

Mar 14, 2020 The Worlds Outside

‘There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies, that’s for thoughts […] there’s fennel for you, and columbines. There’s rue

Blossomfall

Apr 14, 2019 The Worlds Outside

I’ve learnt a lot about Japan in the last nine months, as I’ve got to grips with life in an unfamiliar society. I’ve written about

The Bittersweetness of Things

Apr 1, 2019 The Worlds Outside

‘If the cherry blossoms lasted six months, nobody would love them’. This sentence1 lies close to the heart of Japanese culture. Right now, the cherry