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When surreality suddenly takes hold of reality. 
 
 
The first time I visited Japan I said to myself I would do everything to come back, I would do my best to thread a sustained relationship to a place that captivated and enamored me. 
 
To my surprise I´m back way sooner than I imagined, like a dream propelled me forward and here I am little more than a year since my first visit.
 
The first time I was here it was a lighting trip - a hazy, luxurious, overflowing transformative trip. 
 
My sister and I stayed at an unbelievable palace in Kyoto. Where every step of our journey was cared and catered to. We had unbelievable meals by Japanese chefs and sushi masters, bathed in an onsen (hot spring) in the mountains of Hakone, were lucky to get a reservation at Noma in Kyoto, made new friends, and simply fell in love with this peacefully wild country.
 
We experienced Omotenashi everywhere we went. Where hospitality goes beyond a surface gesture, into a sincere caring for.
 
We were gifted more than one umbrella, we were deeply moved by everything that happened all around.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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This time felt more grounded, this time it was all about tradition and how timelessness abounds. Where a tribute to whats continual feels like the essence of these landscapes. Where luxury is about spaciousness and nature. Stillness and silence. 
 
We stayed at a beautiful Ryokan in the middle of Gion, it wasn´t ultra luxurious but it was ultra well-made.
Every detail in its right place. 
 
Slipper galore, tatami matted rooms, traditional tea ceremonies, Beau Paysage wine, unpolished wild rice sake OMG! 
 
We walked everywhere, we got lost, we explored dimly lit streets, and secret alleys, we stumbled into amazing bars, we discovered angelical melodies. We were overcome by calm and the breathtaking beauty of autumn in Japan. The skies and falling leaves filled every space with electric colors you never knew you needed. 
 
 
 
To experience Kyoto from different perspectives makes me happy. I realize how I am drawn to things that have a life about them. If this newsletter aims to talk about beauty and belonging, the type of beauty I resonate with goes beyond the surface, just like Omotenashi. 
 
I enjoy contrast and complements. 
If you only live one side of something you miss out on everything in between. 
 
This trip was getting to know a place from a new angle. Enjoying the food slowly, strolling aimlessly and letting all of this atemporality clothe me.
 
Surreality suddenly taking hold of reality, indeed.
 
 
 
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CONNECT
During my first visit to Japan I read this engraving in a temple:

All existence phenomena around us are works of a “heart” and it is only the thing which a “heart” created. 
 
In this crazy world it´s a stretch, but what a world it would be if it were true. 
 
REFLECT
The thing that I´m going after isn´t a thing at all… 
 
It´s a process. It is a trail.
 
It is not the destination at the end of the trail." 
 
Obi Kaufmann
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