My family and I went to the local bowling alley. On my last two visits at the bowling alley, my scores were not good at all. Today on my third challenge, my score got improved. My husband and daughter too, had improved scores. We all enjoyed the bowling.

These past one week I had spent uncomfortable time in the house. The swamp cooler was out of order again. I prayed hard so that the maintenance man would come today. And my prayer was heard. The maintenance man came around 2 p.m. and fixed the issue. He said the water pipe was clogged with the calcium due to the bad quality of city water in this town. It was a tiny event but I appreciate every time my prayer is heard.  

Our local gas station has a time sale for gas. I never heard of such thing. They discounted all types of gas by 40 cents off only from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. today. My husband headed to the gas station but saw a long waiting line before the gas station. So, he came back without getting any gas. Even though we didn’t get discounted gas today, I thought it interesting that they offer the time-sale gas.

My last one was June 4^th and I didn’t have one since then. I thought it was my last one. This morning I had my period came back. It was like a surprise visitor to me. I welcomed it from my heart. I like to have my period because I feel being cleansed and lighter after the cleansing process. I wonder this is my last one, or I will have some more irregularly. I accept whatever my body decides. 

I watched the lecture video of the homeopathy teacher. I agree with her teaching by her saying that the most important thing on our life is to improve our spiritual awareness levelこの世で一番大事なことは霊性の向上. All the events happen to support our learning and improvements.

She shared Ikkyu Soujun who was a Zen Buddhist monk and poet in the Muromachi Era.

「有漏路（うろじ）より無漏路（むろじ）へ帰る 一休み 雨ふらば降れ 風ふかば吹け」

「この世の生は、無漏路に至る一休みのなのだ」

有漏とは煩悩があるという意味

I interpret his teaching like this.

During our life, we have rainy days and windy days. It means we sometimes encounter tough time and challenging events. However, our life is a short term from the point of spirits. It actually is like a short break between the time we go back to the spirit world. Therefore, no matter what happens on this world, if we fully understand everything is temporary and nothing stays the same, and stay being in the condition of Satori; the enlightenment, nothing can bother us and nothing can hurt us. Take it easy. And enjoy every moment.

I attended the online Reiki gathering at midnight. There were 37 attendees. One Reiki teacher from Myanmar has been successfully introduced Japanese Reiki to her people. There were many Chinese oriented new students attended at tonight’s gathering.

Today he chose the Japanese word 生き甲斐 Ikigai to share the meaning with the group. Before he shared his wisdom, he asked me to share the wisdom from my personal point of view. I appreciate my Reiki teacher for allowing me to speak up in front of the group. Even though I don’t raise my hand to share my wisdom, he always asks me to speak up.

I shared my understanding of Ikigai like this. It is the life purpose and the reason why I am here. It is something to make me happy in soul level.

My Reiki teacher agreed my understanding and followed his personal understanding like this.

生き甲斐 is good result for living. It is not intellectual understanding, rather you should feel. His Ikigai is to teach Reiki and offer supports to the people who need them.

I feel blessed to be able to be there with him. He always inspires us in a good way on how to live our life happily according to our soul’s purpose.

I want to share the story of my neighbors. They were an old retired couple who moved in to our neighborhood before Covid pandemic. The wife was friendly and we chatted from time to time. Recently, maybe sometime in last June, the wife told me she lost her husband from pancreas cancer. She also mentioned she was renting the house at that time and decided to purchase the house. On the next month she did a yard sale almost every day to get rid of her late husband’s items such as his motorcycle, tools, and other personal items. Then one day I saw her garage got completely empty, which used to be fully packed with whole bunch of items. I hadn’t seen the widow for almost a month or so. Just recently the widow was at her garage with a man. They were moving other items from the house to a truck.

Late on that day another neighbor shared the information about the widow. She met a man at her yard sale. They fell in love and started dating. And to our surprise, the widow already moved into the man’s house and started living together. The widow is probably in her middle of 70 years old or even older.

The point is that nobody can say anything bad about her. It is her life and obviously she doesn’t have many years left. She needs to make a quick decision. To me personally, I am happy for her as long as she is happy with the new man. And I am impressed with her braveness to take a quick action.

It was a busy day for my family with lots of chores, but all in all, it was a nice and blessed day.

Last night I went to bed earlier than usual. I woke up at 3:30 a.m. and attended the palmist’s group lesson at 4 am in the early morning. It was my very first attendance to join this group. It was a small group of 14 attendees. Although I was very sleepy and hard to keep opening my eyes, I enjoyed meeting with new people who were nice.

My daughter had a dental cleaning appointment at 2 p.m. Same as always, the dentist praised her for her taking good care of teeth. And same as always, she didn’t have any cavities. I am happy for her that she kept her teeth clean and strong. Back in my youth days, every time when I went to see a dentist, he found new cavities in my mouth and I needed to return to the dental office for a long period.

Today was my husband’s birthday. My husband and daughter went to their favorite Steak Restaurant and had dinner there to celebrate his birthday. I enjoyed my alone time at home.  

I have been in the process of purchasing a life insurance for my husband before his birthday. Today my husband and I finally succeeded to finish the application. I needed to make several phone calls to the insurance company because this was my very first sales. I hope it will go smoothly so that I will gain confidence in my job.

Recently the gas price has been going down, which is good news. Today I found out our cell phone company increased the monthly rate by $6 per line. We have 2 lines and so the $12 increase. They increased the tax and some small fee, ended up more than $13 per month increase. Just wanted to leave it here on how the increase of the fee gradually tortures us in our daily life.