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jsilva12 wrote a new post, Ending the Year, on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 4 days, 6 hours ago
As I was walking around campus a single cherry blossom fell and caught the sun’s light as it headed towards the ground.There from your high height,
You fall and catch the sun’s light.
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jsilva12 commented on the post, “That’s your word for it? Alright, then I feed my ship ‘Kami’ to make it go.” -Comm. Perry, on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 2 months, 1 week ago
I really liked how you showed your perspective through an act on a stage. While reading Nitobe’s work and Professor Inouye’s book I took the information piece by piece. Here, through your essay, I was able to […]
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jsilva12 wrote a new post, Change is changing, on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 2 months, 1 week ago
Sitting in South Hall, I looked out the window at the stormy whether outside and in the dark room, I thought about the challenges my life was presenting me.The trees are moaning.
Rain falls from the sky to […]
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jsilva12 commented on the post, Misunderstanding Sorrow?, on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 2 months, 2 weeks ago
I really liked your haiku. I felt that it effectively showed how dingy it is in the subway. Not only in describing the scenery, but also mentioning the janitor that has to clean it furthers the gloom. What I […]
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jsilva12 wrote a new post, Change is beautiful, on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 2 months, 2 weeks ago
While at Harvard this past weekend I felt surrounded by buildings made of brick, just as crimson as they were when I last saw them years ago.
Forever crimson,
How many clouds have passed you,
Bricks of […]
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jsilva12 wrote a new post, Beauty in Sadness, on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Placing my hair I cut off in honor of Native American grandmother’s death to the Mystic River, I was greeted by two swans.On river floating,
Wind guiding and met by swans,
The soul goes forward.
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jsilva12 commented on the post, Week 4: Nothingness, on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 2 months, 4 weeks ago
I like your analogy to making a cake. It’s a good way to show the big picture of how while some of their practices might be religious, it doesn’t mean all the parts that make up Japanese spirituality. Also, how […]
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jsilva12 wrote a new post, Nothing but love., on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 3 months ago
Leaving Tisch after finding out my grandmother died, I was greeted by a dark and cold night, while looking at the bright white snow that was diminishing.In the Winter’s night,
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jsilva12 commented on the post, Sunshine – by George, on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 3 months, 1 week ago
I like how you mention the idea that those in their burning house are like small children. Also, that those who have been enlightened need to come back to help guide them out of their house. I find this idea […]
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jsilva12 wrote a new post, Success is inevitable, on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 3 months, 1 week ago
I leaned on a glass wall at a concert I thought about the people I would miss if they were gone and how easily the glass could break.The glass shattered
And you reflected in every piece,
But only for a […]
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jsilva12 commented on the post, How Japanese is Japanese Budhism?, on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 3 months, 2 weeks ago
I found your title to this post intriguing and how you highlighted the oddity of Buddhism in Japan. Japan “accepted” Buddhism, but it seems mainly its rituals and ideas that coincided with theirs. Your paragraph […]
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jsilva12 wrote a new post, A Winter Day to make me live, on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Looking outside of my warm room’s window, I looked at a bare tree that was gaining snow, yet seemed unaffected by the cold outside.Tree dusted with snow,
Bare and beaten by the wind.
Why don’t you […]
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jsilva12 commented on the post, Of Evanescence and Form, on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 3 months, 3 weeks ago
I’ve got to agree with you on this idea being sort of calming. There’s something about the acceptance and realization of change just being the way things are that leaves peace, as if a small burden has left. […]
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jsilva12 wrote a new post, Coming Home, on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 3 months, 3 weeks ago
After winter break I walked to the LGBT Center and entering Bolles House I saw the words WELCOME HOME! on the wall, making feel like I was back where I belonged.
It said WELCOME HOME!The cold leaves body and […]