This is a story about a recent trip to Japan taken by Oprah Winfrey and a bunch of her girlfriends. It's also a story about how you can achieve lasting peace of mind no matter what difficulties life throws at you. How are those two things related? To understand, it helps to have a little background on Oprah's recent Asian getaway.
On Oprah Daily , the media mogul recently explained that she and her friends headed to Japan hoping to see the country's famous cherry blossoms, which typically bloom in March. Weather got in the way . "Everybody said that for the past five years, the blossoms have always peaked between March 25th and 29th.
Not so this year. It was cold; it was raining. And only on the last day in Kyoto did the sakura , what they call the cherry blossoms, reveal its delicate pink beauty," Oprah reports.
But Oprah isn't the kind to sulk and shake her fist at the clouds. Instead, on day three of the 10-day trip, when it became apparent the trees were not going to cooperate, she vowed to explore what else Japan had to offer. "We're not gonna get what we came for.
So let's just lean into what we're gonna be offered here, because we're not gonna get the blossoms," Oprah reports telling her friends. Frustrated that they couldn't enjoy the annual spectacle of the cherry blossoms, the group dove into exploring other aspects of Japanese culture . Oprah marveled at what she observed.
"What Japan has to offer, let me tell y'all, is sublime," she writes. "It's awe-inspiring as .