My family and I took the same procedure. I made our lunch boxes for us to eat in the ride. My husband watered our plants in the garden. My daughter finished some more school assignments. We left our house around 8 a.m. as usual.

I was surprised and happy to see the gas price has been gone down. The Tucson area always offers the lowest of the all areas in AZ. Their gas price of today was $3.59. I remember just one month ago, the gas price was close to $5.00.   

Today it took us longer time than normal. There was heavy traffic starting from our neighborhood area. On my turn while I was driving the canyon area, there was a construction area where the road was narrowed down to only one lane on each direction with the construction dividers so that all the vehicles needed to drive 20-mph for the 65-mph road. On my husband’s turn the situation got even worse. In the middle of nowhere there was a construction area where the traffic was available only one direction only, the other direction was completely forced to stop for quite a long time. We finally arrived at the Navajoland at 6 p.m. which took us 2 hours longer than usual. We were exhausted.

The monsoon of this year must have been harsh for them. Our homesite area was completely covered by tall weeds. And the road on the homesite was muddy. Since our car is a 4WD sitting high, we didn’t have any issues to drive around. Sedan cars would get stuck at the entrance of the road.  

We were all happy to see my mom-in-law and our chihuahua dog; Bucky. He was so excited for our return that he hung around with us all the time. It is always good to back to Navajoland.  I felt my late dad-in-law’s energy being happy for our return.

It was a busy day for my daughter. She needs to do extra assignments for our upcoming trip back to Navajoland. She worked hard so that she was advanced for more than one week in the assignments. I did my part for getting ready for the trip. I cleaned the house and packed the necessary food ingredient. My mom-in-law asked me to cook some foods to share after the memorial service for my late dad-in-law. I am planning to cook fried rice with wild rice and vegetables. We all are looking forward to seeing my mom-in-law and our Chihuahua on the Rez.

I attended the online Reiki gathering at 5 p.m. There were 40 attendees.

Our Reiki teacher shared the story of the Reiki originator; Mr. Mikao Usui. After he was given the wonderful healing energy from the Universe, he shared the gift with many people. He received the gift at the age of 57 and passed away at the age of 61. Even though his teaching activity had continued only 4 years, now it has been spread to all over the world. Our Reiki teacher shared his respect to Usui-Sensei. He said the key to success is to share and give.

One of the attendees asked a question about Reiki teacher getting cancer. I really liked his answer to the attendee. He stayed calm all the time. He mentioned that we should not be fooled by only the appearance. Getting sick or having some types of troubles are just a part of life. It cannot be the cause to judge the person as good or bad. He said he most likely has cancer cells somewhere in his body right now, and he knows people will judge him if he is diagnosed as cancel. Some people judge the healers to have sickness because they think healers can heal everything with their healing power. Our Reiki teacher said it does not work like that. Being sick or cancer cannot be a cause of judgement because the person might be able to learn some great lessons during the process of sickness. We all have some issues in our body, but it matters if the person fuels the issue or the trouble by worrying about it too much. When the person constantly worries about something, it gives the energy to it, then, the issue or the trouble will grow more. The only one thing we can do is shift our feelings and emotions from negative to positive.      

I agree with the Reiki teacher by his saying that we should not fuel to the disease. Rather we should keep focusing on feeling appreciation.

Today is the last day of Obon. I haven’t done anything special for my late mom and my ancestors but I send positive thoughts and appreciation to them in my daily routine. I hope they had a good trip back to this world to check on us.

I wonder how much my late mom has been enjoying in the spirit world. I want her to enjoy there, instead of constantly worrying about us. I guess it will work well for both way for me enjoying my current life and for my late mom enjoying her current life. And eventually I will depart back to my spiritual home ground. Once it happens, I want my family keep on enjoying their life instead of crying for me.

Recently I often think about what I want to live my remainder life. I think it happens to most of the people who have reached to my age where we see our life being limited.

I want to live my life without wasting my energy anymore. I don’t need to become popular among people. I don’t need to be liked by everybody I don’t need to be understood by everybody.  I don’t want to lie to myself. Rather, I want to stay being myself. I always want to be honest to myself. I will live my life by taking good care of myself keeping good share in body, mind, and spirit. And I believe my being true to myself can be some help to make the world to a better place.

I wonder why I wanted to share this with my audience. Right now is during Obon when our ancestors visit us. So maybe one of my ancestors are sharing their wisdom with me.

I woke up with sore muscle from yesterday’s bowling. Still, it is okay because we had fun at the school event.

In the afternoon I watched the lecture of the homeopath course. The teacher shared Ryokan-san’s words and they resonated with my soul. He was a Zen Buddhist monk who lived much of his life as a hermit.

災難に逢う時節には災難に逢うがよく候
死ぬ時節には死ぬがよく候
これはこれ災難をのがるる妙法にて候

良寛

His words resonated with my soul at this moment. It might not if the timing is different from now. His words resonated with me right now because I have finally reached to the point where I can fully understand what he means.

He shared his wisdom when we meet catastrophe. He recommends us not to get panicky, rather, to accept the situation in front of us. Once we accept our fate and let it be, we can stay calm. Even if the catastrophe take our lives, once we fully accept our destiny, the leaving the physical body, the departure from this world to back to our original homeland will be taken place with peace.     

My family and I attended the in-person event for my daughter’s school. It was held at the bowling array. It was our very first time to attend this event. Last year we were planning to attend, but my late dad-in-law passed away right before the school event and we needed to cancel it.

There were many people in the venue. The school staff told us there would be more than 120 attendees. upon registration, the staff member assigned everybody to a certain lane. Each lane was assigned up to 6 players. We were assigned to the lane #4. We shared it with other family of three.

When we introduced to each other to the other family, I mentioned my name and my daughter’s name. they remembered our names right away, which is rare for Americans to easily remember and pronounce Japanese names. The three of the family were a grandma, a son, and a grandson. The grandma introduced herself as a half Japanese. That cleared my question. That was why they are familiar with Japanese names.

I was astonished with the fact. Before I left my house this morning, I prayed to meet a Japanese woman at this event venue. It naturally happened. We didn’t have enough time to play bowling and we were too busy to chat. I could not have time to get to know her. I wanted to become friends with her and possibly exchange phone numbers with her, but it didn’t happen. Still, I was very happy that my answer was heard.

We played two games. Even though it was a very first time for my daughter to play bowling, she did amazingly great. Her score was much better than mine. We all had a great time together.

These past two days we had heavy rain with hale. The size of hale was big. Some of them had the diameter of 2 cm or so. My garden got damaged from the hale so I needed to pick them up even though some of them were still in the process of growing.

In the morning I went to see some people at the community garden. They had lots of vegetables that they wanted to give away. They needed to pick up everything due to the damage from the hale. I thankfully received some of them and made vegetable soup stock.

Today my online order of LM potency homeopathy remedies arrived. As soon as I held the box, I could smell the alcohol. I also saw the leakage mark all over the cardboard box. I opened the box and found out one of the LM potency glass bottles was leaked. The bottle was not broken but the lid was loosened during the transportation. I sent some pictures to their customer support. Their response was not preferable solution for me. It was disappointing to know that they don’t work with the customer.  

In the evening at 6 p.m., I had my first one-on-one training with my palmist teacher. He showed me the Indian horoscope. It was my very first time to see my natal chart in Indian way. Since the Indian horoscope incorporates the actual condition of the sky, their chart is 27 degrees ahead of the Western horoscope. My sun sign is changed to be Aquarius and moon sign is changed to Pieces. When I heard the explanation, the Indian way of interpretation resonates with me. The teacher also read my family’s face feature and palm lines. I look forward to learning more from him. I appreciate for connecting with this teacher and his kindness.