Observations on the world and its inhabitants
Mono no aware o shiru hito (物の哀れを知る人) means, literally, “a person who knows the poignancy of things” — but the knowing it encapsulates is of a different kind. It is not knowledge from books or doctrine; it is knowing the way one knows grief, or a friend’s face — by acquaintance, not by information. Nor ...
Tarek came across Captain Walker’s blog post, “Emotional Intelligence: Conceptual Frameworks, Applications, and Critical Perspectives,” the day after it was published. He consumed it the way a starving man consumes a five-course meal, each paragraph a well-structured bite of clarity in some foggy areas of his existence. It was like a field manual for his ...
Captain Walker
Captain Walker
