[Bae Su-kyeong] The high cost of elegance

“I have decided to find myself a home in the mountains, somewhere high up where one learns to live peacefully in the cold and the silence. That what the spirit reaches for may be eventually felt, if not exactly understood. Slowly, no doubt. I’m not talking about a vacation. Of course, at the same time I mean to stay exactly where I am. Are you following me?” In the poem “I Have Decided,” Mary Oliver writes about the will to reorient one’s way of being. Modern societies often celebrate their open

By The Korea Herald