Treating all things as living-breathing entities makes it easier to manage them and care for them on an ongoing basis. Like one friend would care for another!
Jan 29, 2023·edited Jan 29, 2023Liked by Crystal Duan
re: Shinto, although only 3% of Japanese identify as Shinto, a majority still visit Shinto shrines/practice Shinto rituals. Shinto is more about what you do, not who you are, i.e. it's not a part of your identity, like religion is associated with in western culture. So I'm sure Marie Kondo still respects her Shinto tenets!
Omg I loved this piece. Marie Kondo’s books and Netflix series has helped me tremendously in paring down my book collection by giving them away to friends who’d treasure them more. Also, having moved 9 times in the past 5 years (just queer kid things in Singapore), I’m now learning to only keep things that truly spark joy.
There has been plenty of chatter around me on how she’s “given up”, but I do agree that after her kids have grown up, she might go back to it. Motherhood is no joke, as your other piece of writing has pointed out. Well I guess we shall see.
Thank you for sharing :)
Treating all things as living-breathing entities makes it easier to manage them and care for them on an ongoing basis. Like one friend would care for another!
“Now I’m all about trying to ask things how they feel about you before they buy you.” -- I’m bookmarking this sentence!
re: Shinto, although only 3% of Japanese identify as Shinto, a majority still visit Shinto shrines/practice Shinto rituals. Shinto is more about what you do, not who you are, i.e. it's not a part of your identity, like religion is associated with in western culture. So I'm sure Marie Kondo still respects her Shinto tenets!
(wrote more about Shinto rituals here: https://kzhai.substack.com/p/007-culture-rituals)
oooooh it's interesting to realize Eastern sensibility focuses on what you do not how the West sees it as who you are. i'll give yours a read too!
absolutely loved this! moving soon and going to take some of this advice :)
Omg I loved this piece. Marie Kondo’s books and Netflix series has helped me tremendously in paring down my book collection by giving them away to friends who’d treasure them more. Also, having moved 9 times in the past 5 years (just queer kid things in Singapore), I’m now learning to only keep things that truly spark joy.
There has been plenty of chatter around me on how she’s “given up”, but I do agree that after her kids have grown up, she might go back to it. Motherhood is no joke, as your other piece of writing has pointed out. Well I guess we shall see.