The Art of Being Japanese Canadian

Feb. 20, 2019 • Sally Ito

Human life – indeed all life – is poetry. It’s we who live it, unconsciously, day by day, like scenes in a play, yet in its inviolable wholeness, it lives us, it composes us. This is something far different from the old cliche “Turn your life into a work of art”; we are works of art – but we are not the artist. – Lou Andreas-Salome, psycho-analyst (1861-1937) Japan Japan if I say it enough do you think it’ll come …