Sweet Bean Paste

by Durian Sukegawa

He did not know when or why his fall had begun, but he sensed the seeds of it had always been in him, ever since he was

small.

All experience adds up to a life lived as only you could.

If all you ever see is reality, you just want to die. The only way to get over barriers, she said, is to live in the spirit of already being over them.’