Julia A. Russell

Julia A. Russell wrote a new post, Intro, on the site Climate Change in East Boston 2 weeks, 5 days ago

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Julia A. Russell created the site Climate Change in East Boston 3 weeks, 3 days ago

Julia A. Russell wrote a new post, Hedonism, on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 2 months, 3 weeks ago

By Julia Russell

Waiting for the bus in Medford Square on a very cold Friday afternoon.

A forgotten receipt,

carried by wind

down the sidewalk.

The principles of increasingly […]

Julia A. Russell commented on the post, Best Food, Best Look, on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 2 months, 4 weeks ago

I’m also a bit confused on how here-and-now relates to nothingness. What I make of it is that you can’t experience nothingness without already being in the here-and-now. You can’t have one without the other. If […]

Julia A. Russell wrote a new post, Nothingness, on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 2 months, 4 weeks ago

By Julia Russell

Nothing this week. A little sad to look back on almost ten days and wonder what I was so wrapped up in that I didn’t have a minute-long lyrical experience.

We focused on a major […]

Julia A. Russell wrote a new post, A House Might Crush You, on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 3 months, 1 week ago

By Julia Russell

I was sitting in my room on Friday evening when I realized how quiet everything was without cars no the roads.
Snow floats
into the street
in silence.

We continued our discussion of […]

Julia A. Russell commented on the post, Success and Failure, on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 3 months, 1 week ago

I agree with you about fearing failure. I can understand detachment from a theoretical perspective, but not having grown up with it I think it’s hard for us to embrace. If we don’t define ourselves by our […]

Julia A. Russell commented on the post, A House Might Crush You, on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 3 months, 1 week ago

Am I allowed to respond to my own post? Maybe not. Anyway, I wasn’t saying that Chomei himself was avoiding something. I just feel that if I, personally, were to commit shukke at this point in my life, I’d feel […]

Julia A. Russell commented on the post, Winter and Dreaming, on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 3 months, 2 weeks ago

I agree with your last point. I can see why it might have helped Lady Sarashina, who didn’t have much going on in her personal and family life, but I think it’s a little impractical at this point to consider going […]

Julia A. Russell wrote a new post, Principles of Buddhism, on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 3 months, 2 weeks ago

By Julia Russell
I woke up Sunday morning to a thin layer of snow outside, but with new flakes melting quickly on the street.
Snow floats past the window;
A gust drives it faster
toward the ground.

[…]

Julia A. Russell commented on the post, Still Transformation, on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 3 months, 2 weeks ago

I completely agree on having conflicting feelings after the first week of class. Feeling the impermanence of life and thinking about how it could all be gone tomorrow is discouraging, and personally it’s hard to […]

Julia A. Russell wrote a new post, Evanescence, Form, and the Form of Evanescence, on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 3 months, 3 weeks ago

By Julia Russell

In the late afternoon I opened the shade in my room in Lewis Hall, which faces off campus toward Davis Square, just in time to catch the last few moments of the sunset over Somerville.
The […]

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