“It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found.” —D. W. Winnicott I have always loved the geometry of ships, their bowsprits and their brails, their trestletrees and jibbooms. Walking along the harbor,I admire the long lines of the mizzenmasts, the angled elegance of sails.I have always believed in geometry as …
I sometimes confuse the kanji for everyone with the kanji for floor—as in third-floor balcony. One kanji is the right-hand piece of the other, minus the left piece called the radical, the way other is found in mother, which is also rather radical.“Is floor a part of everyone, or vice versa?” I ask my husband, …