At the age of 28, I often thought of my passion. My passion at that time was to explore America.

Up until then I have visited America four times.

My first trip to America was when I was 20 years old. I participated a home-stay program. I stayed for one month at the volunteered host family in California. My second was our family vacation when I was 22 years old. We went for sightseeing in San Francisco and Las Vegas. My third was with my friend when I was 23 years old. We visited my American friend in San Diego. My fourth was sightseeing in New York and Florida for our honeymoon trip with my ex-husband.

I clearly knew my passion was not to visit tourist spots for sightseeing nor shopping. My passion is to meet local people and learn their way of living.  

I thought it was time for me to travel America alone. I took a one-week vacation in the summer of 1998. I purchased an airplane ticket and flew to Los Angeles. I had only one night hotel reservation for my first night. The remainder was left open. I wanted to go with the flow for my adventure.

On my arrival day at Los Angeles airport, I met one Japanese boy. He lived in Los Angeles and worked as the shuttle bus driver for the hotel that I stayed in my first night. We instantly fall in love at our first sight and started dating. Five months later since our first meeting, in December 1998, I took a two-week vacation and went to see him in Los Angeles. He took me to a road trip to Arizona. Our final destination was Navajo reservation. It was my first visit of Navajo reservation. There, we met a Navajo man and became friends with him.

I resigned my dad’s company at the end of 1998. In order to explore my life, I needed the environment to easily take a long vacation. I started working as a temporary worker for the American major computer company.  

In March 1999, at the age of 29, my boyfriend-at-that-time and I visited our new Navajo friend. He let us stay in his home site for two weeks. There I met his family. His had his wife and two sons.

In March 2000, I separated from my boy-friend-at-that-time. I started visiting Navajoland alone from my fourth visit. I was working as a temporary worker to support my daily life and travel cost.

In February 2001, I met a German man at the job interview. He was the director of the German printing equipment company, looking for someone who could establish a Japanese branch with him. He hired me as the office worker. It was an unbelievably excited job position to establish a new company as a start-up member with him. Through the business trip opportunities, I visited many different place within Japan along with Germany and England. I enjoyed meeting new people from other countries. I was satisfied working with the high position and the high pay.   

During such busy and exciting days working for the company, I started having vivid dreams. In my dreams, Navajoland was calling me to come back. I knew it was real. I knew I needed to go back to Navajoland soon.

I went back to Navajoland for a short vacation, a couple of times, while I was working as a full time for the German company. Every time I went back there, I wanted to stay longer.

I discussed with my director about my passions. My director encouraged me to follow my passion. So I resigned the company in 2003.

I started working as a temporary worker as an in-house translator at the water heater manufacture and the medical equipment manufacturer. I also worked as an interpreter for their new product introducing conference.

In 2006 and 2007, I visited Lakotaland as an interpreter for Japanese customers.

In July 2007, on my way back from Lakotaland to Japan, I stopped by at Arizona to visit my boyfriend-at-that-time. He proposed me for a marriage and I accepted his proposal.

In March 2008, he came to Japan and we got married in Japan.

In December 7th 2008, after eight months of the U.S. immigrant visa procedure, I moved to America.

In December 2009, I gave birth to our daughter.  

For the last ten years, I settled in America with the help of my husband and my daughter.

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There is an interesting fact about Saturn Return.

Saturn Return occurs when the planet Saturn comes back to meet your natal Saturn. My first Saturn Return period was in March 1999. It was when I met my husband.   

In my understanding, Saturn helps us to get back to the route of our original life mission. In my case, at that time, I almost forgot about my life mission. I tried hard to settle in Japan. My efforts included trying to become a president of my dad’s company, getting married to a Japanese man, and purchasing a house. None of them didn’t work well for me, because they were not on my life mission route. I was heading a wrong direction. I believe Saturn helped me to correct my life direction. And the most important start happened in my first Saturn Return, which was to meet my husband.

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I have another interesting fact.

The Navajo man whom I met in my first trip to Navajo reservation is now my dad-in-law. From the first day we met, he started calling me his daughter. Now I has become true.

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My Heisei period had brought me all the way to America. Although it was not easy, I am happy with my past journey. I appreciate to my family spirits and angels to have guided me to the place where I am at right now.

My life journey continues…

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In Japan, we recognize a year by the name of Era. The name of Era is based on the reign of the emperors. We use the Era year in a variety of paper works in our daily life, so that we keep being alert what year of what Era.

Traditionally the name of Era had been changed when we get a new emperor. The current era is called “Heisei. This new era started on January 8, 1989, the day after the death of the Emperor Hirohito.

The current emperor, Emperor Akihito, decided to abdicate the Chrysanthemum Throne before he passes away. Thus, Heisei Era is coming to an end on April 30th 2019.

Many news articles and celebrities review these 30 years of Heisei period. I should review my Heisei period before it ends.

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As for my 30 years of Heisei Era, it was my early adult years.

When Heisei era started, I was 19 years old. I was a university student majoring in English linguistics. Although I didn’t study hard, I always got high grades. Studying English was not difficult for me. Instead of studying, my days were occupied with dating with my boyfriend, attending parties, and working a variety of part time jobs. I never worried about money because I was living under my parent’s roof, physically and mentally.

At the age of 21, my parents bought a new house and moved to the new house. I thought it was time for me to be independent from my parents, so I started living alone.

At the age of 22, one of my professors encouraged me to proceed to the graduate school. With their kind offer of a scholarship for the tuition, I pursued my further degree. I earned a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in English linguistics.

After graduated, at the age of 24, I started working at my dad’s company. I was planning to take over his position, to become a president of the company. I literary learned “Saying is one thing and doing another” by my direct experiences. It was tough. I had never experienced such heavy stress before. It was my first challenge in my life. I learned a lot from my mistakes while working there.

On January 17 1995, at my age of 24, I was at the middle of big earthquake, known as the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. I was renting one of the rooms of the 2-storied apartment. The building collapsed at both ends. Due to the evacuation order, all the tenants were required to move out to a safe area. I moved to the next city. Since my new residence was away from my parents’ house and I felt uneasy, I moved back to my parents’ house. Soon I found myself living uncomfortably living with my parents. I needed a drastic change. I decided to marry to a man whom I had dated only for three months. We had a huge wedding ceremony on December 9th 1995.

We got married without knowing ourselves. We started disagreeing for everything. Soon we realized our marriage was a huge mistake. After lived for one year, I moved out to a new place alone on December 1996.

At that time in Japan, a divorce was one of taboos. Both my parents and his parents were against of our divorce. They felt embarrassed for our divorce. My husband and I pretended we were still happily married even though we lived separately. After eight months living separately, our parents finally approved for our divorce. It was summer of 1997.

Up until then since I was born, I had moved my residence six times. I was still working at my dad’s company with a high position. I could afford to buy my own house.

On December 1997, at my age of 27, I purchased my own condominium with a 15-year home loan. At this moment, I didn’t want to get married anymore. I thought of living by myself for the rest of my life.

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This morning I received an unusual email. It was from the Japanese spiritual teacher. She announced she would send the group distance healing energy on January 1st 2019 for free of charge on.

I participated in her first free session. It was on Oct 6 2017. I liked it very much. I could feel and actually see the clear vision from her session.

She stated in the description area that she needed the participant’s accurate full name, date of birth, and address. In case any information is missing, she will remove the participant without informing the person.   

I input my information her online application form. Right before I hit “Submit” icon, I felt like I should review the information I just input. When I clicked “Back” icon, all the information was cleared. Everything went back to blank. But for some reason, I clicked “Next Page” icon and clicked “Submit” icon, without thinking.

I could have contacted with her through the contact page. But for some reason, I didn’t do so. I don’t know why, but I thought I should just let it go. If my information has gone blank and she removes my name from the list, it is okay with me. I decided to let my family spirits decide if I need this free session or not.

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Update: She scheduled to send out the healing energy at 22 pm on January 1st 2019 in Japan. My time was 6 am on the same day in America.

On the new year morning, I woke up at 5 am. After prepared for breakfast, I went to my room and got myself ready for receiving the healing session. I meditated for about 30 minutes. I didn’t feel anything.

Compared with the last time, it was obvious that my name was removed from the list.

To be honest, I didn’t feel disappointed at all for being removed from the list.

I fully believe in my family spirits. They decided that I didn’t need to participate in this free session.

My family spirits are right. I can connect to my family spirits anytime anywhere. I don’t need anybody’s support for now.

I am grateful to know to know this. I feel blessed to believe in myself.

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Late last night it started snowing. This morning we were greeted by pure white snow covered all our back yard. It was our first snow in this winter.

But the snow didn’t stay. By 7 am, the rising sun started warming up the area. The ice on the asphalted road was all melted. It looked like just like a normal day.

My husband went for work as normal. When he got to the workplace though, his coworkers told him that the entire workplace was shut down due to the snow. So he could not enter the workplace and had no option but coming back home.

Although the temperature stayed low, it was a nice sunny day in the daytime. Whenever I am home alone, I like to open up all the windows and enjoy the fresh air all around the house. Especially while I am cooking, I like to open at least the kitchen window to let the cooking steam flow out from the house.

Such my little fun time was not available today, while my husband was in the house. He kept the heater on all day and night and did not allow me to leave the windows open. While he complained the coldness, he was wearing only a T-shirt and a shorty cuts, without socks.

This is a weird habit to me, but it seems to be a normal habit for typical Americans. I’ve witnessed many American friends and acquaintances stay wearing light clothing inside the house with the heater on in the entire house. It tells me America is a real rich country.

I felt uncomfortable to stay inside the house with the heater on all day without any fresh air flow.

I secretly hoped for no more shut-down on weekdays.

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I spent all day with my daughter. Very peaceful day.

My daughter likes to play beauty salon with me. She wants to be a beauty stylist and I am a customer.

She creates her own coupon and gives it to me. She copies what I daily use. It is written a discount mark with a barcode and the expiration date.

She starts with a massage session. Her massage comes with a facial massage and a body massage, and ends with a foot massage.

She moves to the next stage, which is to put a makeup on my face. It is a fake make up. I am allergic to chemical makeup products and I cannot put any of them. So, she uses a variety of different size of makeup brushes, but the brushes are all clean without any real makeup. She also does a fake manicure treatment with using a tiny brush without a real manicure product.

Her beauty session ends with a hair styling. She starts with brushing my hair thoroughly, and applies some leave-in conditioner. And finally she arranges my hair.

She is gifted with healing touches. I always enjoy receiving her beauty session.

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Since last night we had lots of rain. The rain didn’t change into snow, but it made the outside temperature very low and cold.

I remember I read the weather report article. It predicted we would have lots of rain this winter. Their prediction was right.

The first thing I saw this morning was the text message from my mother-in-law. She attached some pictures of their home site. They had a pretty good amount of snow. I wish we were visiting them at this moment. We would have been enjoying the snow together.

They asked us a couple of times if we could visit them during the Christmas. We could have visited them, but we were kind of reluctant for the long drive.

This year we traveled a lot, and it accompanied with long drive. We decided to stay at our house during the Christmas and the new year.

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Today was the Federal holiday observed Christmas day.

This morning my family made our vision board for the upcoming new year. As usual, we prepared for the colored paper for the base and a bunch of magazines so that we can cut any pictures and texts of our choice.

For the year of 2019, I selected a yellow paper for the base. Yellow represents “prosperous.”

The texts I chose were:

– Going

– Awakening

– Make your dream a reality

– Year of achievement

– 2019 just got more happiness and sunshine!

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The pictures I chose were:

– The calm blue ocean surface

– A juicy orange

– A flower bouquet of red roses, pink gerbera daisies, a pink carnation, and a yellow sunflower

– A huge old tree getting sunlight

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2019 is the Pig year of the Chinese zodiac. The pig year is expected to bring good fortune. I hope next year will be prosperous for everybody.

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Today my husband went for work normally. All the federal workers have an extra holiday today this year.

I needed to make several phone calls to some offices. I was surprised nobody answered the phone, even though they are not federal organizations. Their automated answering machines said they were in the winter vacation and would open on January 2nd. It seems for many civilian companies and medical institutes to take a long winter vacation this year.

My daughter and I spend a peaceful day together at home, enjoying our art crafts.

In the evening we had some unique clouds. They looked like a whale.

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