Status Updates From El Libro de la Almohada

"It's delightful to be on retreat at a temple over the New Year when it's terribly cold and there's a feeling of snow in the freezing air."

"We were hoping to meet some people along the way, but to our great disappointment all we came across was the odd worthless commoner and a lowly priest or two."
Was Sei Shōnagon the Kim Kardashian of her time??

At the end of a list called "Disturbing Things",
"A child who's still too young to talk throws his little heads back and bursts into tears, and won't let anyone pick him up and comfort him."
This was my Christmas, quite disturbing.