Tokyo: My Silver Linings Playbook

A thank you to a city that taught me so much

When you take someone out of all they know and drop them into a city where they look like they might belong—but the city knows they don’t—you learn about silence first. I spent weeks not moving from the corner of my couch. My LA routine dissolved. So did proximity to my friends. One‑hour phone calls turned into staggered time zones: I’d wake up to their…