Some comments. This, is a great phrase, as good or better than anything Chesterton would have written:

«This, Fr. Albrich said, is the “paradox of cloistered orders.” Although they withdraw physically from the world, they remain present in prayer.»
Faith is fierce. We may think of faith as something dull and meek, but when you encounter it in person it strikes you like a hammer:
Rituals are the only way we humans have of making sense of death. Ignore them or lose them at your peril:
There is no such thing as an individual, as we are born and as we die, we belong.
Are these men, or angels?!

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27 Nov
Until the late 19th c. the majority of people in Japan grew, spun, wove, and made their own clothing and dyes. Old clothing was never discarded, it was stitched and mended and re-dyed for generations. Given the name "boro" (襤褸), very little remains today, and mostly in museums.
Imagine wearing a coat made by your great-great-great-great grandfather and hand stitched little by little by all of their descendants and all of your siblings. The ultimate in sustainable clothing heritage. And environmentally sane.
Since each family grew the material most suited to their own clothing, patching and mending was easy, not so much with modern materials. Dyeing was typically done at home with plants easily grown in the backyard. Unlike other dyes, indigo dye can be reused over and over again.
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24 Nov
Bamboos flower extremely rarely, some species only once every 120 years. According to folklore bamboo flowering is a serious harbinger for misfortune & trouble. Starting in 2018 until now many of these rare bloomers flowered all over Japan. We are bad at reading omens. #Hindsight
I was thinking about how many of these news reports of flowering bamboos I have seen over the last year or so, and on a family hike yesterday we walked past tens of thousands of dead or dying bamboos. More than I can ever recall seeing. 2020 indeed. news.nicovideo.jp/watch/nw7076187
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18 Nov
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Urushi and gold are 100% food safe and will not react to anything you put in the cup or on the plate. Plastic epoxy glues are cheap and easy to use but your items should not be used with food.
Raw or undried urushi though is highly allergenic so a lot of care has to be taken applying it. When it dries it becomes so safe even babies can use it. Urushi is hard when dry, and even harder with the gold powder added, it is commonly used to fix chipped stoneware and cups.
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16 Nov
A famous "flashmob" video that went viral in 2012, from the city of Sabadell in Catalonia, Spain. An orchestra playing Beethoven. Have a look before you read the rest of this thread. Let's talk about the urbanism in this video, the Plaça de Sant Roc.
Originally a small walled town, Sabadell's population grew fast in the 16th c. and new streets were laid outside the original walls. Most of the buildings fronting it today are from the 19th and 20th centuries, it covers about 2,320m². The cursor marks the spot of the celloist. Image
The buildings are harmoniously presented in locally sourced stone, in a soft grey. They represent solid virtues of respect for the local, continuity, the strength of the communality, rather than the brittle, reflective glass buildings of the modern Anywhere City. This is Europe. Image
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16 Nov
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Geologists: make a map of stones and rocks in your neighborhood, natural or quarried, talk about their properties, where they came from, how they are used in building and industry. Point out interesting rock formations or geological features of your neighborhood.
Botanist: draw a map of all the streets in your neighborhood and all the trees, teach people what they are and their characteristics, what they can be used for. Find anecdotes about interesting trees and talk about what trees are native in the area. Make a tree guide app?
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Before elevators the classic 5+2 Parisian apartment house looked much the same as good apartment buildings have done since the days of ancient Rome. Far more economically diverse than today: shops on ground floor, the rich on top of that, then middle class, at top, working class.
Rich people weren't interested in walking up all those stairs, so the higher you got in the house the smaller and cheaper the apartments got. Today we have elevators, so these houses are more economically homogenous than they used to be, often the top floor is the most expensive.
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