Hi, ladies!!
It has been raining since last night, but the sky is becoming clear now, though the rainy season will continue for a while.
How did you enjoy this weekend?
As for me, my father was coming to our house for the first time, after his visit to his former company’s gathering at Sakae. He is almost 80 years old, but rather healthy and wasn't tired after a journey from Osaka. He is a very talkative person, and during this stay he had endless things to talk about to us. I’ve been familiar to such a situation with him, but my DH and kids were not and just had to listen to his long stories.
Usually we have a meeting with a lot of relatives, about 20 members, and so we don’t have to deal with him all the time. From his acquaintance to several books he was reading, to my cousin’s recent news, he freely spoke to us. On reflection, when I was a girl, he used to always get angry with children because of our bad attitude. He was a very short-tempered. All what I can recall now is his displeased face.
And yet he was always laughing and trying to please us, even if a bit noisy. Now I can imagine his difficulties on job at that time, and he was tired due to them. Last afternoon, when I saw him off, looking at his retreating figure, I felt inexpressible warm feeling and sadness. I hope he will be doing well as long as possible.
So, see you later. Good bye!
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Hi, ladies!!!
It is so delightful to read the messages from all of you, isn’t it?
I just came back from Kokubu Hiroko’s jazz piano concert plus a lecture on how to play jazz music. I got to the concert hall perhaps 15 minutes before the show, but there were a few seats untaken in the front row, and thus I got one of them.
First of all, she played a brilliant piece of jazz music as an opening number, and her audience, of course including myself, were simply charmed and enchanted by her live performance. Most of the audience, it appeared, were piano teachers or learners of jazz music, and thus she gave us a lecture on rather sophisticated piano playing technique, which was totally Greek to me, but I enjoyed her talk and music and, I was enormously enticed by her graceful, gorgeous as well as dynamic piano music presentation.
I have no idea about how old she is, but surely she is not so young, but looks quite young and lively. Apparently she started to play the piano as a small child, and she was, sort of, glued to her piano, and perhaps she got into it and became part of the musical instrument. “Get into it” is the key to success, isn’t it?
Learning how to play the piano is almost equivalent to learning a foreign language, isn’t it? It takes endless time, and everyday practice is crucial and significant. Music and language are both means of communication, and sound is one of the most substantial or essential aspects, and thus we have to train our ears, don’t we?
The most amusing talk in her show is that we talk on the phone spontaneously when we get a phone call and then why we cannot play the piano as spontaneously as we talk. She is an amazing talker, isn’t she?
Well, I have to get ready for dinner, my fabulous friends. Bye for now. Have a lovely evening…
Hi, my friends,
It is Monday,June 23rd. Cloudy later rainy. I have nothing to oppose you to continue this blog. I will keep on writing, too.
Cherry, I understand your feeling toward your father. Sometimes hardness and sufferings make him or her change his or her personality. He seems to be very lucky and happy because he takes back his inborn cheerful character being with good families and relatives and friends.
Plum, Ms. A seems to have lots of free time to concern about other people. You seems to have lot of tolerance and curiosity about human beings,so you can keep a good balance with her.
I have finished an essay! Yatta!
Hello, Cherry and my fabulous friends.
I regret to tell you but when I checked out my final essay, I could not help feeling that I wanted to add a few more information to some part of my essay in order to make it clearer for my readers.
Alice told me that there might be inevitably some cases of giving up making such a change due to approaching deadline.
I'm a tenacious person so I could not endure to overlook my faults. It's my current problem. My essay writing seems to never end.
By the way, I’ve been doing treasure hunting in the world of Kujo Takeko(1887-1928).
Accidentally I found that Takeko lived in the same period as Akiko Yosano, who was born in 1878 and Raicho Hiratsuka in 1886.
The different point was Akiko and Raicho were recognized as new women but Takeko was not.
Akiko advocated a feminism based on equal educational and social rights, refuting the traditional concept that the wife willingly following the husband’s opinion.
Raicho also challenged the ideal of the good wife and wise mother, attacking the Japanese marriage system and insisted to develop affection in marriage.
While Takeo was far from being a new women. She was an obedient wife with fidelity to her husband who had left her in solitude for about ten years.
Akiko and Raicho have drawn more attrntion from the world.
I have a question to ask you all of my friends having both wit and beauty.
In the script of The Taisho Debate Over The "New Women", at page 177, 9 lines from the upper part, who does "the author" mean? I wonder if she was Raicho???
Could you please help me who the author is?
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