Hi, everyone!
Alice, I hope you like Mr. Umeda’s new book. I didn’t know Ms. Ishiguro, and I checked some information about her on the Net. I am just surprised to know such energetic woman exists in IT Company as CEO, and moreover, she is sister of your friend!
Sunflower, I’m interested in Japanese superstitious belief. We certainly use different religions for different purposes. It’s unique.
Azalea, I’m sorry to hear that you cached cold. I hope you will get well soon.
So, see you tomorrow, good night.
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Dear Cherry and friends
New year’ holydays have passed away and I have returned to normal.
But recalling my behaviors those days, I think I am typical Japanese, as Sunflower mentioned. My family has a household Shinto altar and a Buddhist alter side by side at home. I offered auspicious ornamental rice-cakes and drink to the both alters. I went a shrine and a temple to greet the God and ancestors in the graves as a kind of seasonal event. Sunflower wrote, “That is not directly related with one’s religious belief.” “Maud P. concluded that Japanese seems to have a mass of ignorance and superstition that had piled up through thousand of years.” But I wonder if such traditional Japanese belief and behavior are something wrong? I wonder if seeing eight million gods around us is a trouble leading to superstitions? I think our vague but profound respect for nature, or Something Great, would become a hint of getting together peacefully in the world.
Recently many environmentalists are claiming that forests are absorbing Co2 and indispensable living existence for human. Considering that the idea of monotheism has brought up troubles all over the world intending to force their principle on others. The idea of Christianity that they are always right seems to be very arrogant for me.
Next, I’d like to write about why the number of Christians hasn’t increased. Now I’ve wrapped it up today. Bye, friends.
Hi, everyone!!!
It is Wednesday, January 9, 2008, today, and it has been fairly warm, hasn’t it? I am very happy that there is no wind blowing around my house.
Yes, Hillary, she did it in New Hampshire. It seems that no sooner had she stared her speech after the victory in the N. H. primary than I switched on the television. I was making my lunch in the kitchen after I got home from my hair stylist’s shop, but I could hear her voice. She said something like: …I listened to you, and, in the process, I found my own voice…I will roll up my sleeves and keep going…we can live up to our God given potential…
I did not sit down and listen to her, but her address sounded very strong and full of self-confidence. Previously her eyes became watery due to her tears welling up, maybe, while she was talking with her supporters after she was beaten by the other frontrunner, Obama. She said that she had emotions, followed by something like, “you may have doubt about it”. That line was quite impressive to me.
This year’s presidential election in the US is especially interesting and fantastic since two secondary citizens, a black man and a white woman, have been competing neck and neck.
Oprah Winfrey, a super-famous feminist black TV journalist in the US, made a statement that she supported Obama, not Hillary. It was a sort of disappointment to me, but at the same time it is true that there are millions of voters trying very hard to make Hillary the first US woman president. It is amazing and brilliant, isn’t it? God bless you, Hillary!!!
It has been gorgeously sunny and beautiful afternoon. It has been quite, so quite, unbelievably quite in my lounge, and I do love it. I sometimes miss my daughter and her baby, but I had spent enough time with them, I suppose.
Talk to you again tomorrow, my precious friends. Bye for now…
Hi, everyone!!!
I would like to make one correction to my earlier understanding of Hillary’s speech.
I just watched another CNN news program, and I heard part of her victory address for the second time, and, in that, she said:…I listened to you, and in the process, I found my own voice…
It is a very strange combination, “found” and “voice”, but it is what she said. Nonetheless this combination seems to be appealing to a lot of viewers, because one of the commentators stressed this line in the program.
Hello, friends.
Azalea, are you getting better?
New year days have passed and I should get back to normal days and I have to write my essay, but today was the day when my 20-year-old friends, I mean my friendship with them, gathered and had a New Year meeting(Shinnenkai) at the famous KATSURAGAWA in KOKOKEI.
It was the first time for us to go there though we had long wanted to , but I thought that I couldn't afford to have such an expensive lunch. When they asked me to go, I made up my mind to go there because it was for the Shinnenkai.
The restaurant of Yuba Kobo, Katsuragawa is located in the valley and we had a fantastic time, making and eating Yuba,having lunch, seeing the waterfall, away from my hectic daily life.
It took us 3and a half hours for lunch and I was so full that I couldn't eat dessert of yuzu-sorbet, but I had powdered tea and YURINE(lily bulb) Manju with bean-jam filling, which was very delicious, so I bought them as souvenirs to my mom and DH.
May I ask you a favor? I wish if someone could send me NWSG articles to my e-mail?
It is impossible for me to open it. I couldn't change my password at all.I'm hopeless with machines or PC.
Hi, Cherry and friends
It has been very warm. The sky was so bright and clear today. Is it due to global warming? About the U.S. presidential election, I have been thinking Hilary has an advantage over Obama because she is well-known, competent and has abundant experiences. Still the wall is high to have the first woman president. It can be one of the reasons of her hard fight, but I’m not so sure. By the way, I feel disgusted with a catchword (Midashi) of a Japanese weekly magazine; for example how they write on Princess Masako, and how the announcement is made on a commercial broadcasting. The voice is heard so pessimistic and helpless. If they appear on TV, they cannot report in such a horrible voice. Thank you for reading.
Hi, everyone.
Thank you, everyone for your warm words for me. You encourage me very much. I will fight back from the respite. It sounds anti biotec bacteria such as tuberculosis.
Peach, I gree with you, Japanese style stew cooked at the table is simple to prepare. It helps housewives.
Cosmos, I would like to hear your opinion. I can't wait.
Plum, what was Hillary's own voice?
What did she find? For me, it is beyond my understanding.
Magnolia, sorry, Katsuragawa is a strange word. I would like to go there at next new year banquet.
Please remember it.
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