A Dreary Day, Warm Tea, Deep History

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #218

I wrote this at the top of a piece about the Moravian Book Shop in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, which is considered to be the oldest continuously operating bookstore in the world:

My wife and I are planning a trip to Japan, and one of the things that’s interesting about Japan is you’ll read things like “This little noodle shop in a back alley has been in ope…