I went to the grocery store in the early morning. While I was approaching to the entrance door, I saw many customers inside the store, but the entrance door was closed. I went to the other side of the entrance door, which is the main door. There were around 30 people with a shopping cart waiting in front of the door. I saw a sign saying their senior hour from 6 to 7 a.m. The people who came behind me had white hair could go into the store. The store worker did not request elders their age. All of them had white hair. I thought to myself, if my hair was covered by white hair, the store worker might have me go through the door. I am glad I don’t have much white hair in my head yet.

All the other younger generation customers had to wait at the door. I needed to wait for 20 minutes until their special senior hour ended.

When I entered the store, there were a whole bunch of old people shopping. It was very hard for everybody to move around inside the store. I saw many empty shelves here and there. I also saw customers with full of shopping cars waiting in long waiting-lines for cashiers.

All of a sudden, a gasp of sadness came into me. I got emotional and almost burst into tears. Maybe I sensed other people’s sad feeling. It is sad to see something like this in all the stores.

I woke up at 3:23 a.m. I heard an owl’s hooting in our neighborhood. I considered this owl’s visit as a good message. An owl is a wise one who calmly observes things and always be alert. I also felt the owl came to convey a message to us that we are always protected by our family spirits.

From today the school changed the food delivery time to late morning. It used to arrive to our local bus stop at 8:50 a.m., but from today, it arrives at 11:00 a.m. Their main reason to change the delivery time is to try to reach many students. Some students complained the previous time was too early for them. They overslept and missed to grab the food packet. It was hard for me to believe that. If so, I feel sorry for the kids for not having been able to get up in the morning regularly.

The coronavirus situation has gotten more serious than before.

Arizona State issued a Stay-at-home order to Arizona residents until April 30^th. This order will go into effect tomorrow Tuesday at 5 p.m. The local police department confirmed we can still go walk for exercise. It is not that strict as that of some countries of Europe where they need a certificate to go outside, even if it’s for a bike ride or a walk.

As of today, president trump extended social distancing guidelines to April 30^th. One of the article says it could possibly extend to June.

With his announcement, our area’s authority has decided to extend the school closure through the remainder of the school year. So, students won’t be able to go to school until the next school year of August.

It is sad for students that they cannot go to school in this school year anymore, but this will make our community stay healthy.

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My personal update. My period came this morning as scheduled. I am thankful for that.

Thinking back of last year, after I heard about the shocking news of my parents, they both got a cancer, my period started coming irregular. Now that my period started calming down. This year for three months so far, it came regularly.

It was a windy day. The wind got much stronger in the night. As the strong wind blew, the roof shingles started making loud noise banging the roof. It sounded as if a giant monster was jumping on the roof.

I almost said some complains about the old roof shingles. But my daughter saved me for doing so. Instead of complaining, she started saying all the nice things to our house and the roof shingles.

She said “thank you to our house for protecting us. Thanks to your protection, we are staying safe inside the house in this strong windy night. Thank you for everything.”

I was impressed at how my daughter interpreted at the same scenery. I also thanked my daughter to teach me in such a beautiful way.

I joined my daughter and started saying a good prayer to our house.

Indeed, thanks to our house, we are safe inside the house in this strong windy day.

As of today, our county has confirmed three covid-19 patients. The authority announces the first two patients are self-isolating and recovering at home. They investigated the last patient’s contact and confirmed there are no threat in the community found.

I talked with several local people this morning. The 5-6 people shared their positive thoughts with me. They believe we are doing pretty well, and the situation will cleared up within 2-3 weeks.

It was good to know there are many positive thinking people in our community.

My daughter’s school supports their students by giving them weekly study assignments. It was a good intention. However, they have been struggling the best way to provide the assignments to each student.

The school originally planned to provide a printed out packet to each student. Originally our state’s school closure was planned only one week. However, considering other states’ conditions, our state decided to extend two more weeks’ school closure. Then, the school decided to preserve their paper resource in case they need to extend much more days of closure. Thus, they decided to provide the assignment through online page.

Now, it created a new issue. Every process was new to the teachers. Some teachers are really bad in writing in an online page. Their assignment instructions are hard to understand, even for us, adults.

After I communicated with the assistant principal, they agreed to provide my daughter a paper packet of assignments.

This morning on Thursday, we finally received a paper packet. It is definitely helpful for my daughter.

I feel sorry for other parents who are still struggling with the online assignments. It seems the school gives away the paper packet only to the people who communicated with their teachers.

I heard several parents complaining about the online assignments. I suggested them to talk to the school so that they can provide the paper packet.

This morning I had two dreams.

The first dream was about a huge giraffe. The giraffe was standing in front of me. It seemed to me that I received some spiritual gifts from the giraffe. I felt good about the existence.

I consider this as a messages regarding the coronavirus. A giraffe has a tall neck supporting its face up high. I won’t get affected as I stay in a higher place than others.

The second dream was about a big feast at a barbeque restaurant. I was with my family and my friends’ family. The six of us were sitting at the same table at the restaurant. Two waitresses brought us two huge plates of piled up meats. We were about to roast the meats. It had plenty of amount for everybody. We were all happy about it.

I consider this as a message about the inheritance from my late mom. It is enough for everybody, in the real life case, my dad, brother, myself. We should be all happy to have our own share.

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In the evening we had a surprise visitor to our house. One of my friends brought a pack of toilet paper. She said she has enough, and her friend who works for the grocery store could buy new pack for me. I didn’t expect their help, and it was a very nice surprise. Thank you ladies for supporting us.

The first news I read this morning was about the Tokyo Olympic 2020. After the telephone conference with IOC (the International Olympic Committee), Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, agreed to postpone due to  the coronavirus pandemic spreads world-wide. I feel sorry for Japanese people for this news, but it will be good for all of us of our safety.

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While I visited my mom in Japan, she gave me a full bag of kale tea. Since I came back to my house in America on February 2^nd, I had the tea every day. I loved this tea. This was the last gift from my mom, I loved this tea even more. While I was drinking this tea, I could feel my mom.

Sadly though, today I drank the last package of the kale tea. I cannot buy this tea from America.

Today I was talking about death with my daughter.

My daughter pretty much understands that death is not the end; our souls are eternity. But still, she said she doesn’t want to be at my death bed. She doesn’t want to be at my funeral nor cremation. It will be very tough for her to see my physical body to be ended.

While I was listening her saying this, I thought of my mom. She gave me a great gift at the last minute of her life. I could spend time with her for one week while she was still alive. We enjoyed our company. She departed at the best timing so that I had the good reason for not being at the funeral and the cremation. I know I cannot handle to see my mom’s dead body to be ended like that. I appreciate my mom for the wonderful gift. It was very thoughtful of her. Without seeing her body cremated, without attending her funeral, I still vividly remember her as alive. Thank you mom.

I also recognized one thing. I should be more thoughtful to my dad and my brother. They were the one who dealt with my mom’s death. My mom departed on Sunday night and they had her funeral and cremation on Wednesday, so they needed to spend three nights with my mom’s dead body and witnessed her body to be cremated. It must be so tough for them to experience all of these. They must be still suffering from feeling lost. The experiences must be overwhelming for them. I appreciate my dad and my brother to take care of these for me.

Today was the first day that my daughter’s school delivered a food packet of breakfast and lunch for children at the school bus stop. The bus arrived later than the scheduled time. I appreciate all the stuff members to work for making this happen.

The school was supposed to deliver the assignment packet prepared by teachers, along with the food packet. Some students received it but it was not available for my daughter. Hopefully they will deliver it tomorrow morning.

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In the late morning, my daughter and I went to the local grocery store. The toilet paper area was all empty same as before, but there were five or six packs of facial tissues. The sign said it was limited to one per customer, so I bought one pack for my family.

I was happy to be able to buy one pack of facial tissue. Even though we are still running out of toilet papers, now that facial tissues were in the store, we should be able to buy a pack of toilet paper soon.

I refreshed my computer as it has gotten much slower than before. The Refresh process of itself did not take long, but re-installing all the app took much time.

The main reason for me to refresh the computer was some issues in my virus software. When I processed the menu of “remove cookies and trackers,” it started to have 1 or 2 unwanted temporary files left undeleted. It grew to 6 or 7 files. I thought it was due to some computer virus or something. I hoped this issue will be solved after I refresh my computer.

It turned out to be worse. After refreshed, the virus software shows 60 unwanted temporary files undeleted. I tried to reach out their online chat service, but the waiting line was 54 minutes. I could not wait that long. Hopefully some other time I will be lucky enough to contact them sooner and they will fix the issue for me.

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In order to prevent further spread of COVID-19, Japanese government decided to take an extra process for people who is entering to Japan. It includes Japanese. The visitors will need to stay 14 days in a house or a hotel room. They are prohibited to use any public transportation during this self-quarantine term. It includes the transportation from the airport to the final destination. The visitors will need to arrange a rent-a-car or a car from their family or friends. My family and I will visit my dad in Japan when everything calms down.