By the multifaceted Bonnie Robin, landscape architect and owner of Parlor Tea, an Australian company focused on the simple pleasures of making tea as a grounding ritual that elevates everyday living:

My Tokyo Slow
Walking slow enough to see how the moss grows between the cracks in the pavement and the water trickling down the curbside drains
Noticing the way the patina has formed over hundreds of years on window panes and door handles
Sharing a nod with an elderly local as they sit on their streetside stool watching the world go by
Inhaling the aromas of a yakitori grill drifting from a tiny dark alley
Watching a butterfly glide above the lily-pad laden pond
Hunting out tiny kerbside pot plant gardens down quiet urban laneway