Robert Hudson

Arts & Literature

“Just noticing the world around us is a deeply spiritual path, and Nellie deVries walks there effortlessly in the delightful haiku-like poems of Japanese Garden. It is a quiet sanctuary of noticing. Her mastery of mono no aware—the art of capturing the beauty of the fleeting moment—is on display in this accessible and inviting volume, or as she writes, ‘This is not a gateless gate / yet the way / is always open.’”