When activities as simple as riding a bike get layered up in complications - from fear of getting lost to squeaky brakes to the bit of my brain that doesn’t want to ride because it’s cold - I try to remember this video. Ah Joo strips away any complications in a quietly inspiring way. “To me, worry doesn’t exist, and the bike is actually meant for riding. That’s it."

I’m still utterly captivated by this video that Anna sent me, and I find it it pleasantly dumfounding how such a simple idea can be so engaging. A simple idea, executed excellently.

This is good too.

“What a strange, demented feeling it gives me when I realise I have spent whole days before this inkstone, with nothing better to do, jotting down at random whatever nonsensical thoughts have entered my head.” So begins the Tsurezuregusa, a collection of miniature essays from 14th century Japan, wherein simplicity in all things is most desirable.