Hi, ladies!!
How wonderful time we could spend together at the Aichi seminar! I was very happy to share that precious experience with all of you… Since it finished till today, I was almost groggy. But this morning the younger daughter went camping and the elder is now studying with her friend in the library. So now, I am free!!
Magnolia, thank you for your extra explanation of Iwako san. I’ve ever heard some women for philanthropy with Christianity, but I found her eagerness came from Buddhism, and there must have been a lot of nameless women who followed Iwako-san. In fact, religion is an important factor for our research, isn’t it? Because I haven’t understood Sugako Kanno’s true religious base yet. I wonder how and why she had so impressed by socialism. In order to recognize it completely, I must read many, many books…!
Alice, thank you for your acting as chairperson. I won’t forget the next year’s one for Sunflower.
Well, I hope you will have nice vacation this summer. See you, bye!
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Hello, Cherry and my precious friends.
Alice, thank you for naming me as the next year's chairperson.
I’m willing to accept that important job.
Magolia, thank you for teaching me about Iwako's religious background.
After this seminar, I really felt the necessity of upgrading my English ability continually. I also realized just arranging the facts of when one
was born and what one did were boring and superficial, but that
intermingling facts with social incidents with my points of view would be
deep and profound. It would be my next goal.
It would be nice if I could make a higher quality of presentation next
summer.
I had a comment from Bev. She told me that she enjoyed a morning session. She also told me that
what makes a paper or a
presentation fascinating is focusing on the paradoxes or problems --or
social implications-- that are embedded in your discussion of a
particular person or time.
Let's get started to our next goal!
July 24, 2008 12:24 AM
Hello, everybody!
I suppose you all have now returned to daily life.
I was always impressed with passionate activities of the Christian missionaries, reading articles and listening to your presentations. On the other hand, I always wondered where Buddhists were and what they were doing when many people were introble. Japanese monks have been ridiculed that they are practitioners of funerals. I have now known such persons, Iwako Uryu and Noboru Ogasawara, who were very pious Buddhists and persons of action. We’ve many active Christians’ stories but I think many active Buddhists lived in obscurity. I am very interested in the differences of ways of activities between Christians and Buddhists. One of difference ideas is a concept of “challenging spirit” and “mind of endurance”. This is only my idea. Anyway I’d like to look into this field as a next theme.
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