"Let simple and old-fashioned myself stay with you, while ordinary things have been disappearing in the world."

I was given two swell little notebooks from Japan just now. And I think they have indirectly been guided by the universe as the answer to my question of zakka.

I know in general what zakka means - loosely paraphrased as the enjoyment and apprecition of the spirtuality of daily things, in the physical sense. Something like the spirituality of the right cup for tea or the humbly simple design of something.

Awhile back I asked around to those who might know - and there was no reply from anyone. Maybe it was the universe guarding its secrets.


But then the words on this tiny notebook appeared. And maybe it is the answer.