Resolution

Well, I had some resolution today. For some strange reason, I felt really perturbed about not being able to see Sensei Jingu again and was thinking about it the whole of yesterday. I called him up today and told him I had left my textbook at his place - he mentioned something about an 'email' but I didn't really understand what he was saying and I asked him if I could come by and pick up the book that I had left at his place.

So after work, I went over to pick up the book. And then I asked him for his email address which I had lost. And he said, 'but I sent you an email aleady... so it's ok' So apparently he had sent me an email which I hadn't yet checked.

"....Oooh.. ok..." I said outloud, while musing about what the email could possibly be about.

well, Sensei Jingu said, 'you haven't received it?'

'Umm.. no.. not yet'

'Well, come here...' he motioned as he settled down in front of his computer.

I was treated to a show of his pictures. Black and whites taken in Japan five years ago and a series of colored photos taken in Thailand also about 5/6 years back. For both the colored and black and whites, he asked me which one I liked best. Both featured children. Possibly a coincidence because most of his photos were not of people but of places and things.

He showed me a picture of a building with creepers growing on the side of it, and he said, 'this is wabi sabi also' and I was like, 'oh really, how?' and he explained that another photographer had seen the photo and said that the picture has a beauty or a kind of wabi sabi that only the person that took his photograph would be able to fully appreciate. And I was abit blur... 'so did that photographer also like the photo?' I asked.

He said, 'for example, the picture of the watering can you gave me, it's Wabi Sabi to you... only you can see it, but I can also understand that it is special to you' Yeah... I gave him a set of 8 postcards yesterday at my last lesson. And he liked the black and white photo of the Thai Bus the most. But I felt that the watering can pic conveyed the most wabi sabi. In fact, it was the watering can pictures I took that made me think of the words wabi sabi, which I had heard from long ago but never thought too much about.

He burnt me a CD of all the pictures to keep. I thought he did that coz' he knew that I was coming over to pick up the book. For some reason I thought that he had uploaded the pictures onto the internet and sent me the link through the email.

It's really strange. When I got back and check the email he sent me, I realized that he had already prepared the CD for me even before I came and was waiting for me to call him.

I feel so much better now that I've gone to pick up the book and talk to him again. It's like I've tied up some loose ends.