All the people here are "on the way."

Nanako Hanada

 

 

From "The Year When I Met 70 People On A Dating Site And Recommended Books That Would Suit Them One After Another." Hanada, who has long worked for a bookstore and whose life with her husband collapsed, made a surprising move as the book title shows. Everyone she met was strangely at the crossroads of their life. Seeing the people, a kind of, exchanging their instability politely and standing close to each other in a slight defenseless state, she realized that the world was like that in the first place.

 

"July 23  2019

from “Oriori no Kotoba” by Kiyokazu Washida, The Asahi Shimbun"