What a total delight to find a word that uniquely expresses an exact and complex concept. Schadenfreude, for example. Or drizzle.

Tsundoku is one of my favorite words in Japanese. It describes a big pile of books that have not been read. It’s not hoarding, or collecting… it starts with the clear intention to read, and the pile of unread volumes is the natural outcome, not a goal unto itself.

More precisely, it’s “not yet read” books, because the intention persists. “Unread” is only a temporary state.

There is no failure.

There is no delay.

There is no waste.

There is only true intention,

and a pile of possibility.

Dear ones, whatever is undone in our lives,

perhaps we are preparing.

Perhaps the “un” is false.

Perhaps it is just

not yet.