There are pauses between the showers of the outer world,

But there is no time when my sleeves, wet with tears, are dry.

                                                                                         ~Murasaki Shikibu*

Lost in Translation’s theme for the Black and White Sunday is… natural

*cited:

Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan

Trans: A Omori & K Doi

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/omori/court/court.html