Hi, ladies!!
I’m surprised how the time has passed so quickly since our seminar finished, just one week! I was also amazed at my kids’ clear consciousness of my presentation, because they pointed out my mistakes. They said that I had had better in my rehearsal (in the face of them) than the day, and even so, that I had responded to some questions more smoothly than last year. Specially, the younger daughter indicated accurately that I had been panicky when I’d answered last year! I couldn’t help laughing…
Yesterday I bought a TV game Wii sports for my kids’ birthdays, and we enjoyed it. That program includes some sports games, such as tennis, baseball, and boxing, and everyone can play them easily with a remote controller. Actually, I was able to have a good time with my kids, even though such a virtual game. In the near future, they will want to buy another program Wii fit, a kind of exercise equipment. I am secretly looking forward to do more fitness with it.
Well, see you tomorrow. Bye!
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Dear Cherry and friends!
How splended your cute girls are!
I suppose a future will become another world, which will be created by your daughters' gebneration with infinite possibility of expanding brain and skill. Recalling my childhood, I culd never have imagined this technological society of now. I have realized that I cannot now catch up the rapid change.
Tomorrow,I will write morepossitive comment. See you tomorrow, friends!
Dear Cherry and friends,
Hi.
Cherry, your daughters are really smart. You must be proud of them.
And I'm sure they must be proud of you because of your progress.
My sister visited my aunt who lives in Yatomi today. She called me around the noon to ask about the weather. It was thundering in Yatomi, but it was not yet in Toyohashi. In the afternoon, there was a shower. The cool summer breeze is comfortable tonight.
Today's readings were “Mothering” and “Nursing” from Prochaska.
Like education and district visiting, these were among religious activities in the Victorian era.
Mothers' meetings were a crucial agency in British social service.
Middle-class women set up one and married women from the poorer classes became its members. In the urban district, while churchgoers decreased, the membership of mothers' meetings increased.
At many mothers' meetings, there was a religious address. There was also needlework. Sewing provided clothing for the family. Women carried on sewing while listening to readings and learning tips on domestic management. The meetings also provided a refuge from domestic drudgery or violent drunken husbands.
As mothers' meetings expanded, they functioned as a clearing-house of information on family welfare. Issued discussed at a mothers' meeting ranged from infant welfare to the state of housing market, from venereal disease to votes for women.
The next chapter deals with the Bible nurses invented by the Ranyard Mission. They visited the sick and the dying.
Their activities were less scientific than modern medical practices.
The Bible nurses were not very different from the Bible women.
In most cases, diseases were not cured but death was eased by scriptures read by nurses. A Bible nurse visited 8 to 10 patients a day.
In the scheme of the Ranyard Mission, nurses were trained at a hospital. The training program was revised and improved with the years.
When the services conducted by the Ranyard Mission were taken over by the National Health Services, Mrs. Ranyard's ideals were ignored. Since then, nurses have not read scriptures to comfort the dying.
Sunday schools, district visiting, mothers' meetings, and district nursing became obsolete as the 2 World Wars destroyed churches, schools, and hospitals in Britain. The voluntary sector could not afford to provide social services anymore. Instead, the government became the main agency to do so. Now people in Britain support the welfare system not as voluntary agents or donators but as taxpayers.
Good night.
Hello, friends.
How are you spending this scorching summer? But after yesterday's heavy rain, I could enjoy cool breezes sometimes.
I'm into 'LOST'. Do you know that DVD? It was well made movies and I can't stop renting them almost everyday. Is it addictive?
It is a story about the people who were left in the unknown island after their plane crash.
They try to survive making various efforts.
There are many characters and each character has its own story. Almost all of them have their secrets in their former lives.
I was thrilled when the story was revealed one after another.
I've watched from series 1 and series 2 , totally 24 volumes maybe, and I watched 1 and 2 volume of series 3 last night.
I have to watch more 10 volumes.
During watching it I can forget the summer heat. I recommend you to watch it.
Dear friends and Cherry,
You do have amazing daughters! They really have goog memories, more over they stand by you, Cherry.
I have watched LOST, TV drama series. Mario, an AET said he wanted to go back to America to see the latest one, so I rent it. I don't know why but I didn't keep on watching it. I'd like to watch it again.
I happen to know the speech of Steive Jobs, a CEO of APPLE
Computer. It is an impresive speech full of insights in life. There are three things which moves me. First, about his birth. His mother was a single mother and decided to have her baby adopted before his or her birth. Second his curiosity in calligraphy. He lost interest in education in university and stopped but found something more excitng; calligraphy. He was simply attracted by its beauty, but later he madee use of it for designing letters for computer. Third is about his career. He was fired Apple computer even though he had started it, and then...
There are a lot of Web sites introducing his speech. We can enjoy the video through the Internet. His speech was worth seeing and listening to.
It is getting late, goog night, my dear friends.
Hello, Cherry and my precious friends.
This summer has brought me good movies of geriatric actors.
Harrison Ford, at the age of 66 is cast as the lead in Indiana Jones film, and Sex and the City is ranged in age from 42 to 51.
And the biggest challenge is the film of the hit musical Mamma Mia, where Meryl Streep, aged 59 plays the lead role of an American who runs a little hotel on a remote Greek island.
I’d like to see those two moves Sex and the City and Mamma Mia, the new movie based on the 1999 stage show with songs by the Swedish pop group Abba. To my sorry, I've never seen the musical.
They are good news for geriatric viewers in this summer.
Good night.
Dear Cherry and friends,
Hello. How are you?
Sunflower, where are geriatric people?
I saw a teacher of marshal art on TV tonight. He took the first pupil when he was 100. He is currently 108 years old. He looks like having trouble with hearing but he doesn't look geriatric at all. He told his former pupil to keep training. He was insisting that training is not for fighting but for health.
Now let me tell how I reflected upon the final chapter of Prochaska.
So far it has discussed charities established in the Victorian era. The last chapter explains how they have been diminished since World War II.
It meticulously explains the gradual changes that have happened to social services in Britain.
In Victorian era, altruism, reciprocity, and a sense of atonement supported voluntary causes. Without Christian morality, how have been people motivated to become charitable agencies? Most contemporary charities in Britain are irrelevant to Christianity. Most donators are not Christians.
It seems that altruism without Christianity has remained.
Charities established in the Victorian era became state-funded and lost autonomy. It is ironical. The government pays, and charities become hesitant about saying against statutory authorities.
On the other hand, the government is not always almighty. It sometimes changes social welfare policies. Both Thatcher and Blair, for example, encouraged private sector expansion looking back Victorian voluntarism.
However, the problem is how they can patch the system without having Victorian ethos.
There seem a lot of similarities between Britain and Japanese postwar voluntary sectors. Most of them are government-funded and have little autonomy.
Talk to you later.
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