Remember how last year’s motto was the Japanese roller-coaster rule, “Please scream inside your heart”? Well, while I’m not convinced 2020 has actually ended, I recently stumbled on an updated version. At an Olympics press conference, Seiko Hashimoto – president of the Tokyo 2020 Games – outlined the new guidelines: “People can feel joy in their hearts, but they can’t be loud.”
I’m writing this letter from yet another lockdown, and I’ve got a lot of feels that I’d like to express – very loudly – but they’re not really words I can commit to print (and I’m ironically
