【Tips for daily life】

In addition to relaxing time, refraining from going out and the spread of work at home have increased the chances of spending time at home.

When you are modest in going out, create a small special feeling in your daily life.

For example, you can serve the usual sweets little by little like hors d’oeuvres and enjoy the hospitality at the cafe at home.
Put a bite-sized candy on a warm wooden bowl or your favorite tableware and serve it nicely.

Arranging several types will add to the fun of selection. With a little effort, “a moment with sweets” can be made even more polite and luxurious.

Stay safe & healthy.

【Tips for Daily Life】

As we spend more and more time at home, we’ve begun to enjoy a café-like tea break at home to take a breather.

Caffeinated drinks such as coffee, tea and green tea can also provide powerful support when working for, or working from home.

However, enjoying such caffeinated drinks late into the night can make it difficult to fall asleep.

If you want to sleep with natural sleepiness, it’s best to avoid caffeinated drinks. Preferably have them until the afternoon snack, or latest until the sun goes down.

Switch to decaffeinated herbal or grain teas, rooibos tea or decaffeinated coffee when you spend your evening at your home café.

Stay safe & healthy.

To be human is to be a living being that cleans. But this does not refer to polishing to a shine either objects or our environment. If you observe a bit, you’ll understand that cleaning is an activity that establishes a comfortable balance between nature and the man-made.
Humans are the only animals that create cities and environments by arranging them to suit us. This is why the environment that has been modified by humans according to their needs is written as “人工” in Japanese, literally “human+ work/craft/ingenuity”, and translated as “man-made”. The man-made should be comfortable, but when there is a proliferation of materials that are too corrosive or erosive of nature, like plastic and concrete, people begin to long for nature. However, if we completely leave nature alone, dust and fallen leaves pile up, and plants thrive wildly. This is probably why human beings have lived with moderate acceptance, and moderate abatement, of nature.
Even when you build a house or create an outdoor space, it’s uncouth and tasteless if the manmade aspects are overbearing. Let nature take its course to some extent; don’t over-rake the leaves, or trim the greenery to the extreme. The secret of cleaning may be to discover moderate comfort: places where nature and the man-made struggle against one another, like the water’s edge, where the breaking waves wash the sandy beach.
In 2019, we went around the world photographing scenes in which people were pictured cleaning. This was before COVID-19 swept the globe. We had been wondering if the very essence of human beings lies dormant in the everyday and ordinary work of cleaning, which transcends culture and civilization. Today, when the entire world has stopped, these photos and videos make us miss our ordinary routines. No matter how technology advances in the future, people are living things, embracing a rhythm of life that perpetually resonates in the depth of the body. We can move forward heeding this natural internal rhythm.

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