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One of the quiet joys of rural Japan is the roadside vegetable stand. Often no more than a wooden shelf […]

At the edge of evening, I find the split shell clinging to a branch beside the pond. The chrysalis hangs

The summer heat has broken, but as I unload the truck outside my Tokyo apartment, the mosquitoes find me immediately.

Summer heat builds through the morning like a slow fever. By noon, the valley shimmers with rising air, and the

This year’s garden taught me more about failure than success, which might be the most valuable lesson of all. The

  We’ve had almost two weeks of stable sunny weather, the kind of high-pressure clarity that makes every morning feel

This morning I found a blue longicorn beetle (Rosalia batesi) on the cabin’s wooden deck railing, motionless in a patch

Counting spirals is a kind of meditation. The cones don’t care if I get it wrong. I trace one ridge

Today the lake was crowded with more sailboats than I’d ever seen here—sleek hulls catching the morning light, bright spinnakers