"Japanese paper gives us a certain feeling of warmth, of calm and repose… Western paper turns away the light, while our paper seems to take it in, to envelop it gently, like the soft surface of a first snowfall. It gives off no sound when it is crumpled or folded, it is quiet and pliant to the touch as the leaf of a tree."

The is this old TV series called ‘Gilmore Girls’ about three Gilmore women - a mother, a daughter and her grandmother; and their complicated relationships. It is one of my favorites, but hard to say why. Not that it is relevant here either. How it is relevant to the topic at hand is that this is where I heard of Marie Kondo and her book.