This morning I left my house at 5:30 a.m. for the grocery store as one of my regular routines.

On the way to the grocery store, there was the straight streets with two lanes in each direction.

In the same direction as mine, there were two other cars. They were driving very closely to each other. I didn’t want to get involved in any troubles from them, so that I changed to the other lane to keep distance from them. I was driving carefully within the speed limit.

My intuition was right.

The car driving behind lit up. It was a hidden police car. The car driving ahead got caught by the hidden police.

On the next moment, the car who was driving in the opposite direction also lit up. It was another hidden police car. The police car quickly made a U-turn and parked right behind the first police car.

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I could not believe what I just witnessed.

The car who just got caught had two police cars behind him.

Remember, it was early in the morning of 5:30 am. The street was quiet. Not many cars were driving. As a matter of fact, in one directional lanes, there were only three cars including me. In the opposite direction lanes, there were only one car driving. Among the four cars, two cars were police cars trying to catch somebody for speeding.

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It was an unusual scenery in the early morning. I am glad I was driving with the speed limit and did not get caught.

I shared this story with my husband. Maybe my family spirits let me witness to give me a warning. We have to keep being alert and driving carefully. And, it is always good to listen to your intuition.

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I woke up with the rain sound in the morning. Today was different from the previous two days. By the time my daughter left for the school, the sun came out. I went for a morning walk and came back covered by sweats from the strong sun shine. I am glad it gets back to normal.

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Today I worked on one of my projects. It was to make an overall skirt for me.

It was much easier than I thought. I could finish sewing it within one day. When I bought my sewing machine in 2014, it took me several days to finish sewing my project. Now I can make much faster and better than those days. It is thanks to lots of practices.

I went for my evening walk with my brand new overall skirt. I am happy for my new outfit.

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For two mornings straight, I woke up from the heavy rain sound. I thought the rain would stop by noon, but it continued raining all day long, even through the night.

Our area is normally blessed with strong and bright sunshine on the majority days of the year. I normally don’t need to turn any room lights on during the daytime. But today I needed to do so. Not only in our house but also in the entire area was dark covered with the heavy clouds.

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Rain reminded me of my days in Japan.

I started utilizing the public transportations such as buses, trains, and subways since I became a high school student. I could have chosen my high school to the closest one from my house. If I had chosen the one, I could have go to the high school by 10 minutes’ walk. Instead of choosing the easiest option, I chose the difficult option. I chose my high school located at the farthest area from my house. In order to attend the high school, I needed to take three different public transportations including a bus, a train, and a subway, and it took me 1.5 hour in one way.

I chose my university at the far area too. It also took my 3 hours to just go back and forth from the university all the weekday.

I used to hate taking the public transportations, especially on rainy days. It was a very, very discussing experience. The trains on rainy days tended to be late so that the inside of trains tended to be jammed. Everybody’s wet umbrella touched other people’s clothes. The air in the train was dull and smelled badly. Under the uncomfortable environment, people tended to get irritated and treated mean to each other.

Those days I never imagined of my current living environment. I never thought of living in sunny area in America.

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I am thankful to today’s rain because it reminded me of my old days. Compared with my younger days, I am in the preferable environment right now. I gave me a reason why I am thankful to my current environment.

Please don’t get me wrong. I am not writing this just to brag about my preferable environment.

What I really want to covey is that your desire will be manifested eventually if you keep having it in your mind.

During my days in Japan, I always hated to living in a jammed environment. I wanted to live in a relaxed environment where people live with a comfortable distance to each other. Now my desire was manifested.

Every thought counts. Every hope counts. If you keep having it in your mind, one of these days, it will be manifested naturally.    

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I woke up with the heavy rain sound. It has been raining hard since last evening.

After lunch, I received a mass notification call from the school. It announced about the flash flood watch and that all the schools of our county decided to release students early.

I simultaneously received an email notice from the school too. It said the school bus drivers are instructed not to drive any flooded area. It also said “Any student that cannot be delivered to a stop of picked up will be brought back to the school for parent pickup.”

Our local bus stop gets easily flooded. Besides, our bus stop is the first stop. If the bus driver cannot stop at our bus stop, my daughter will need to ride the bus to all the way to the final stop and come back to school. I didn’t want that happen. I quickly got ready and jumped in my ride, and headed to the school. Luckily I made it arrive at school before the bus took off, so that I could pick my daughter up.

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In these past few months my husband has studied almost every day. He had a certificate test today.

It was a difficult certificate test, but he successfully passed it.

He reported his success to his immediate supervisor at the workplace. The supervisor was very happy for my husband and congratulated him.

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Last night we went to the Chinese restaurant. They gave us three fortune cookies. Without thinking, I gave one to my husband and one for my daughter, and kept the last one for me.

My husband’s fortune said like this.

“Soon you will get the recognition you deserve.”

We thought it a good fortune. We thought my husband would pass the test, and we guessed it right.

For your information, my fortune said like this.

“You are inspirational.”

I guess my fortune was right too. Because I am the one who encouraged my husband to take the test. And I am always the one for my husband to keep motivated him in improving. I am indeed inspirational.

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This morning when I went to the kitchen, my husband told me we have a stoker.

He was giggling while saying it, so I knew it was not serious.

I looked at the direction he pointed. There was a grasshopper clinging on a red rose right outside of our kitchen window. The grasshopper was intensely watching us.

The grasshopper gave us the first laugh of the day.

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Today was a relaxing day.

My husband studied almost all day for his upcoming certificate test. My daughter drew a painting with acrylic paints on a canvas. I could finish reading three books.

Our day ended by going for our routine evening walk in the neighborhood area.

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The other day I happened to read the news about car seat trade-in campaign in Walmart. They will accept a used car seat and offer a $30 gift card in return. They will accept any brands’ ones. The traded-in car seats will be recycled with their partner company. The campaign date was originally set from September 16th to September 30th.

Last night I showed my husband the campaign information on their official website. I noticed they decided to make the campaign end earlier than their planned term, due to the overwhelming response. They set the last day of the campaign as today September 21st. Luckily I made it to participate in this trade-in campaign.

The other store also offered the trade-in campaign, but their deal was not good as that of Walmart. The other store offers only a coupon for 20% off a new car seat, and the coupon is valid to a very short term.

Compared with the other store, Walmart offered a great deal to people.

I appreciate Walmart to have this generous campaign to everybody.

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It was a busy day.

I cooked breakfast, ate, and cleaned it up. I did laundry and hung them up in the back yard to dry. I cleaned the house. I cooked a beef kimchee soup and origiri (rice ball), and some vegetable dishes for lunch/dinner. By then I was almost running out of time. I jumped in my car and headed to the local airport to pick my husband up.

Everything went by on time and smoothly.

After we came back home, my husband fully enjoyed my homemade food after his two weeks business trip.

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In the night after I was done all my to-do-list items for today, I finally got relaxed.

I experienced a light bulb’s blow out twice in a row.

First one was the light bulb in the refrigerator. The light bulb on the top shelf gave out its last and brightest flicker, and it was dead. It never died off on us until tonight after our six years living in this house.

Second one was the light bulb in my computer room. The same thing happened. The light bulb on the ceiling gave out its last and brightest flicker, and it was dead.

If it happened only once, I would not pay attention to it. However, since it happened twice in a row, I thought about the message from the event.

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Maybe it happened for my husband.

He came back from his business trip through the long airplane flights. Even though the people whom he encountered and dealt with during the work were very nice, he must have accumulated unknown stress from staying in the hotel, constantly eating restaurant foods, and being away from family.

I believe the light bulb’s blow out was helpful for him to discharge his leftover electricity in his body.

Anyways I am glad he is safely back home.

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I started making a Halloween dress for my daughter in the morning. I needed to make a mad dash to the local craft store. There I bought some decorative items such as Halloween buttons and orange pompoms, and a pair of snap buttons.

I was surprised that the dress was completed within one day, by the evening.

Making a Halloween dress was one of my to-do-lists since I bought the fabric on September 13th. Now that I could remove it from the list. Now I am feeling relieved.

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Whenever I mention about my sawing products, many people think that sewing is my hobby. Or they think of me having lots of free time to do so. And that is probably why people casually ask me to sew something like a bag or a dress for them for free of charge. I am still working on saying no to people when they casually ask me a favor.

The truth is this.

First of all, sewing is not my hobby. I do it only for my daughter and myself, and sometimes for my special people such as my family members and close friends. I do it to show my love and appreciation to them. I don’t fully enjoy doing it. It gets stressed me out when it is one of my to-do-lists for a long time.  

Second of all, I am not bored at all. I always have tons of things in my to-do-lists.

I love reading books. I love meditating. I love having a conversation with my family spirits. I love studying through online classes. I love watching Japanese funny comedy shows. I love cooking. I love keeping my house clean and neat.

With these, I am always running out of time.

Please don’t misunderstand me. I am always busy on something. And I am enjoying every moment while I am doing my favorite things.

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As I wrote in my previous article, I attended the online lecture about the influence of electromagnetic wave on September 12th. It was an eye-opening lecture. Until then, I didn’t know much about the influence from electromagnetic wave. I didn’t pay attention to block it.

As a matter of fact I used to sleep with my cell phone and ipad right beside of my pillow. I used to use them at the last moment of falling asleep and at the very first thing in the morning. As the consequences, I used to have a hard time to fall asleep right away. I used to wake up with a dull headache almost every morning.

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Now I learned.

Since the lecture day, I don’t keep my cell phone and ipad in the bedroom. I have started sleeping without any WiFi equipment in the bedroom.

My small efforts make a huge difference. My family and I noticed the difference. We have started sleeping more soundly and waking up more comfortably than ever.

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As one of the benefits of good sleep, my spiritual gifts got improved. One of my spiritual gifts is to receive messages from spirits in my dream and remember my dreams in details.

In this past one week, almost every night I was with my parents in my dreams. We enjoyed having each other. One day I was visiting them at their house. The other day I was enjoying our vacation in Las Vegas with them. These were one of our actual memories, but in my dreams, we were much more active and happier than the actual experiences.

In my dreams both of my parents were young and healthy. They laughed a lot with their big smiles. We danced and sang songs. My dad was using his cane as his dance tool. It was hilarious movements.

I believe they are true themselves. My parents are originally happy and active souls. I want to keep focusing on seeing them as they truly are.

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