Hello, this is Ditto.

Let us gently open our drawers, and our minds.

Are they tangled with objects we've kept just in case, relationships we force ourselves to hold onto for fear of growing apart, and a web of complex thoughts endlessly chasing one another? Believing that having more makes us safer, we constantly carry the excess baggage of life.

American philosopher Henry David Thoreau wrote the following in Walden, a book he wrote while living in a cabin he built in the woods:
"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify!"

Simplifying does not mean losing something. Rather, it is the process of stripping away the unnecessary to clearly reveal what is most precious and essential to us. Just as sediment settles at the bottom of still water, allowing only the clear water to rise to the top, the density of our soul solidifies only when we reduce the volume of our lives.

Complexity scatters the mind, but simplicity allows us to see the essence.
Are you, right now, walking with heavy burdens that exhaust you?

Today's Poem

Return to Heaven / Cheon Sang-byeong

I will return to heaven
Hand in hand with the dew
That fades when touched by the dawn light,
I will return to heaven
With the twilight, just the two of us
Playing on the slopes until the clouds beckon,
I will return to heaven
On the day this beautiful world's picnic comes to an end,
I will go and say, it was beautiful...

The less we have, the less we have to lose; and the lighter our hands, the easier it becomes to reach up toward the sky.
What do you need to unload and empty out of your life right now?
May today be a day you pause and breathe lightly.

This was Ditto.