I took my daughter to the state test venue. It was a math test day. She took her time to the last moment, so that I needed to wait in the car for close to 3 hours.

After she came out from the room, she shared a cute story. She doesn’t like math so she didn’t even read the questions and just guessed the answer randomly. Then she heard a clear voice from somebody. Not somebody from humans but from spirits. The voice told her to stop just guessing the answer, rather read each question carefully. The voice encouraged her that she would know the right answer as long as she reads the question. So she followed the advice and started reading the questions carefully. She told me that was why it took long for her to finish all the questions. I instantly felt the energy from my late dad-in-law. Maybe he was with her and encouraged her to do her test properly. I appreciate him for encouraging my daughter.

From today for three days straight, my daughter will need to take the state test. Thankfully the test venue was in our local city, just 20 minutes away from our house. The test instruction says all the students are required to wear a facial mask all the time in the test venue, which I concerned about it. However, at the test venue, all the four teachers told the students that they don’t need to wear a mask. As a matter of fact, nobody including teachers, students, and parents were wearing a mask. There were only ten students in a spacious room and each of them had a big table to all to themselves. I think they all could spend test time comfortably.

This week my husband’s company have all their employees to attend a one-week boot camp training for their mandatory certificate exam. So, he will stay and study at home for this week. I am happy for him to learn new things and get a new certificate.

My family and I worked for some hours in the backyard for trimming dead trees. Even they were cut, all the branches still have moisture in them to make us hard to cut them off. I am amazed the strength of their survival energy. We all enjoyed working the yard work in the heat with the earth even though I am right now suffering from sore muscle.

My last monthly period was in January. It skipped in February and March. I thought it was skipped due to the flu I suffered in these two months, but at the same time I thought it might be ended. I am in the menopause stage and my period can be forever ended in any time. I have a complex feeling of happiness and sadness about its transitioning. But today, it came back. It is like to have a surprise visitor whom I never expected to have. I am happy it came back. Welcome back.

This year I am going to take two online courses from the Japanese homeopathy school. The two courses are Family Homeopath course and Inner child therapy course. The first course starts at June and I already finished paying the tuition. The latter one starts at September 2022 and the deadline of the tuition payment is set in summer. Since the current exchange rate of Japanese and us dollar is advantage for US dollar, I decided to pay the tuition today. The exchange rate of today was 124 yen for 1 US dollar.

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FYI: One week later as of April 17^th, the rate got even better for US dollar: 26 yen for 1 US dollar. I should have waited a little longer, but it is okay though.

My family and worked on our vegetable garden. We assembled a new wooden garden box and fenced around the garden boxes to get rid of stray cats to come in.

It was a hard work that I have sore muscle on my arms and thighs. I am feeling great about our hard work.

In the evening we received a phone call from my mom-in-law. She announced us that the Navajo stimulus checks for my husband and daughter are delivered to her P.O. Box. This is their second check from Navajo tribe. The first one was directly deposited to our bank account so we expected to receive it in the same way, but this time they changed the procedure without letting us know. Anyway it was a great news.

Then my mom-in-law continued another great news for us. My husband was already given the trailer house where my dad-in-law owned. It was his wish before he passed away. Now my mom-in-law decided to give his tool shed with tools to my husband too. During the conversation she also decided to give the house, where she currently lives in, to my husband. She already decided to give other 2 buildings to my husband’s older brother along with my mom-in-law’s garden and the garden shed. We are all happy for my mom-in-law’s decisions about the distributions.

In the early morning I went to the local grocery store. Even though it was still 7 a.m., the store had a whole bunch of customers and I was surprised. Thankfully though, for some reasons, all the customers and workers whom I encountered and interacted this morning were all nice and polite. None of them made me feel uncomfortable nor annoyed. I really appreciate the support from my family spirits. I was wondering why the store was packed even in the early morning. Later on I realized it was the first Wednesday. The store offers 10% off to elders. That was why I encountered many old people there. I will be one of them who can enjoy the discount in three more years.

After the shopping, I stopped by at the eye doctor’s office and picked up my new eye glasses. Obviously the new glasses were heavy. This pair of glasses are the most luxurious and expensive one that I ever had. The frame got sturdier than the last one, and the lens area is much bigger than the last one. Besides, I added all of the functions that they recommended. The fancy functions are progressive lens for trifocal (covering near, middle, and far sighted), transitional sunglass for Arizona’s strong sun, anti-glare for night driving, and computer screen protection. The new eye glasses feels much heavier than the last one. While the last one weighs 11 gram, the new one weighs 17 gram. Regardless of the heavy weight, I really like the new eye glasses. It definitely worth to pay extra fee for me to feel ease with this new glasses.

I attended the Reiki gathering at 5 p.m. There were 44 attendees.

The Reiki teacher shared his wisdom about sakura; cherry blossom. At this moment Japanese people have been enjoying sakura flowers. Japanese love sakura. And he thinks it is because Japanese people see sakura as a representative of 物の哀れmonono aware. It is one of the philosophy that our ancestors have cherished for generations. It is a cycle of life and gentle sadness. Sakura blossom is beautiful but we know the beautiful moment doesn’t stay for long. After sakura blossoms reach to the full bloom, next stage is for cherry blossoms to fall off by heavy rain and strong wind. Sakura expresses the transition of things. We see the universal rule of 諸行無常 Shogyo Mujo that everything is impermanence. Everything is being evolving by transitioning its stage. We see the beauty in the transitioning process. The teacher reminded us that we should cherish every moment because the “Now moment” will not come back again. We should not be attached to anything. We just enjoy the now moment and believe everything changes to evolve and improve. I always enjoy his teachings and reminders.