Vintage sleeping beauty

Example of standard-width image. Woman sitting on white chair, by Joanna Nix-Walkup

After two weeks of living on bourbon and donuts (okay, fine. Two and a half.) I decided it was time to kick myself into healthy gear. Pulled out favorite fresh veggies, drizzled with sesame oil, rice vinegar and a kiss coconut aminos.

And reminded myself that fast food doesn’t have to come from a drive thru.

Example of standard-width image. Vintage sleeping beauty, by Joanna Nix-Walkup

Fly into Osaka and head straight to Kyoto. The best part of flying into Osaka Kansai Airport: it’s cheap. Worst part: it’s on an island, so it takes about 30-45 minutes by train to Osaka city center. Once there, take an express train to Kyoto. You can skip Osaka for now and come back to it later if you have time.

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But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness.

To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?