religion – The Worlds Outside

A Pilgrim’s Lack of Progress

Recently, I’ve been thinking about the idea of pilgrimage, as a journey which is undertaken not simply in pursuit of a destination, but in search

Let me set the scene. A Shinto priest waves his1 haraegushi, a staff topped with thin strips of paper that somewhat resembles a mop, in the

We woke up late, groggy and discombobulated, after a night out at Vent in Tokyo. The place was interesting and all, with its audiophile soundsystem,

This week, I took a short trip to Shimane Prefecture. I stayed for two nights and planned to document it all in a single blog.

I was writing the wrong blog, basically. For the last week, I’ve been straining to finish an article to answer the perennial question of my

So here I am, three weeks into my adventure. I’ll probably write about an aspect of teaching sometime soon, as I’ve been in the job