as the beautifully wise japanese saying goes, cha-zen ichimi or zen and tea have the same flavour.

the way of tea - conversations, observations, musings and lovely things


colour is a feeling
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colour is a feeling

colour is never universal. we all experience it differently and meet it through out own memory. our own sensitivity.

primary colours speak loudly. red wants to be felt. blue wants to be known. yellow wants to shine. sometimes I turn to quieter colours, to black and white, to light and shadow, so the feeling can arrive softly and stay.

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living inside something rare
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living inside something rare

i try to move through this time by intuition. i believe in timing, in the quiet intelligence of life arranging itself beyond what i can see. i trust that i am always being guided to exactly where i’m meant to be, even when the path doesn’t make sense yet.

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secrecy is a form of care
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secrecy is a form of care

secrecy, to me, isn’t about exclusion or gatekeeping. it’s about respect. some places can’t survive being broadcast. attention changes behavior, and too much of it can hollow out what made something special in the first place. when beauty is constantly consumed, it stops feeling alive and starts feeling used.

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between lens and language
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between lens and language

i have observed how some people believe you can only be one thing. a photographer. a writer. a painter. as if creativity needs to be boxed into categories, as if our own intuition and vision must choose a single form.

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i met myself in the sky
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i met myself in the sky

i met myself in the sky ——— my younger self, shyer and quieter, flying solo for the first time. she was sitting by the window, lost in a dream, her hands wrapped around my camera, holding it like a secret she was starting to unfold. the steady rhythm of the plane beneath us was a quiet feeling somewhere between fear and freedom.

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