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From the solitude and serenity of nature to the pulsing energy of her cities, Japan is truly a country of contrasts and contradictions. The aesthetic qualities of Japan form a cultural world view, centered around the concept of living in harmony with nature. In traditional Japanese aesthetics, Wabi-Sabi (����) is a world view centered on [��]

Dogs are our link to paradise.They don��t know evil or jealousy or discontent.To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to beback in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring.It was peace.�C Milan Kundera Histories are more full of the examplesof the fidelity of dogs than of friends.�C Alexander Pope [��]

For months there is no rain, and then there is too much. Half the world��s people survive at the whim of the monsoon. Good monsoons, those rain-bearing winds of Asia and the Subcontinent,??mean life and prosperity. Poor ones are marked by famine and death. Monsoon History The air is wet, soaksinto mattresses, and curlsIn apparitions [��]