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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Present of Peace (music and picture)
Aska is a resident musician in St. Louis who moved to the States at about the same time I retired from Toyo University and settled here. An active member of JUMP (Japan United for Ministry of Peace), Aska wanted to … Continue reading →
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Hana-gumori (花曇)
Good morning! We are now in hana-gumori (??), flowers (cherry blossoms) with clouds or mist. Above we have the clouds, but here we enjoy flowers blooming and birds singing. On the other side of the globe, however, the triple … Continue reading →
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Time Tide
Good evening! The untimely spring snow has disappeared, and greener grass and fuller flowers have appeared. Even cherry blossoms bloomed according to time and tide. Anything not in a systemic, sustainable, saving, safe, and simple state will disappear. Dictatorships, dynasties, … Continue reading →
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Resort to Refuge
Good morning! Even after the spring equinox, we now have snow. It’s beautiful viewing it from indoors, but very dangerous driving outdoors, visiting anywhere. On the way here, I heard news of multiple traffic accidents. Before that I watched a … Continue reading →
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Self Suffering
Good evening! We’re having a nice moment on a spring evening, which is said to be worth a thousand pieces of gold – priceless. I visited Ed, who recently had a stroke, in the hospital. When I visited him, he … Continue reading →
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Shift System
Good morning! Now we have spring drizzling rain over flowers, with a bit of chill. We call this “hana-bie: ???,” flower chill – a little chill with cherry blossoms – a mixed feeling. Spring flowers produce pollen fallout. Nuclear disaster … Continue reading →
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Beyond Billows
Good evening! Suddenly many flowers have started blooming. Magnolias, pears, plums, hyacinths, forsythia… just after ohigan, ???, the spring equinox. Magnolia in Japanese is mokuren, ??, wooden lotus. We say “atusa samusa-mo higan-made” (Heat and chill until the equinox. … Continue reading →
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Reality Relation
Good morning! Now the snow has gone away and the spring wind is carrying in birds’ singing. Within a few days, the full moon has waned in the sky and fresh flowers have withered here. Before I came here, I … Continue reading →
Moon & Mundus
Good morning! We can still see the clear full moon through the window. We cannot but see complications on earth. The disaster could claim over 20,000 lives, and the nuclear crises could reach even this country. I watched … Continue reading →
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Death Demise
Good morning! We have now a beautiful Sunday with the white snow world in bright sunshine after the spring equinox – untimely partly because of global warming, I think. There is more moisture in the air, so we have more … Continue reading →