Wa – Cooperation Wa (和) is the gravitational center of Japanese civilization, a word that means harmony, peace, and Japan itself. The character appears in…
Furusato – Nostalgia Furusato (古里 / 故郷) is the Japanese word for one’s native place, hometown, or birthplace, but to translate it as merely hometown…
Marriage – Unity In Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet (1923), his Poem Let there be spaces in your togetherness…He urges that healthy love requires individual space,…
Lagom – Sufficiency The story goes that a horn of mead was passed around the warrior circle, and each man was expected to drink only…
Hygge – Presense Hygge (pronounced hoo-gah or hue-gah) is a Danish and Norwegian word that has no direct English equivalent, though it is often translated…
Ubuntu – Humanity Ubuntu is a Nguni Bantu philosophy often summarized as I am because we are, or a person is a person through other…