At the beginning of my daughter’s summer school in June, my neighbor offered us a ride to school. She gives a ride to her little boy to school. The little boy participates in the same programs as my daughter does.

We could have walked to school but I was happy to hear her kind offer. So, I respectfully accepted her offer. Since then, we have rode to school together every morning. I enjoy chatting with her.

We have known each other for years but we never had opportunity to chat.

It is fun to get to know her. Every day I get to know her little by little. It is like opening surprise gifts every day. It seems to me she has gone through a lot. That gives her lots of wisdom and knowledge. I always love to hear people’s real story.

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She is 70 years old. I thought she is the grandma for the little boy, but my guess was wrong. She is a great-grand mother to him. She had her son at the age of 19. Her son also had two daughters at his young age of 20 and 21. Then, her granddaughters too had their kids at their young age of early 20s.

She takes care of her great-grand-son every day. The little boy goes to the school in next town, and the school does not offer the school bus to our area. So, she gives him a ride to and from school every morning and evening. It takes 30 minutes one way. Thus, she drives 2 hours every day for her great-grad-son during the normal school days.

She also has a full custody for her great-grand-daughter who just turned to 16 years old. Her granddaughter gave away her custody due to some drag issue. 

She never talks about her husband. I guess she might have her son as a single mother in her young age.

I was amazed at her story. It sounds tough, but at the same time, she sure receives lots of love and blessings from her grandchildren.

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She asked me if Japanese has a habit of spanking a child as discipline. I answered I don’t think we do. She mentioned they had in her younger days. She also mentioned “sadly some people still do.”

She witnessed one of her old friends used to spank her children to discipline. The children are now grown-ups and still don’t listen to others. She believes spanking does not work to discipline. She believes when an adult talks to a little child logically, with looking straight into their eyes, about the reason why they should not do this and that, small kids will fully understand. They don’t need to be punished in order to be discipline.

I agree with her. We don’t need to give any kinds of physical punishments to children to discipline.

When I heard my neighbor mentioning about physical punishment to children, I thought about myself.

I never hit nor spank my daughter. That being said, I was not a super nice mother all the time. I yelled at her when she was still a baby.

When my daughter came back home, I asked her if she remembers my yelling at her when she was a baby. She said she remembers. I apologized her for that. She said she accepts my apology.

Nobody can do it right all the time. We sometimes make a mistake as a parent. The important thing is we can make it up with our children to face to them and apologize to them sincerely. Then, we can change our attitude from the next time.

We cannot change our past. But at least we can change our presence. Changning our presence will change our future better. That is how we grow our mentality and spirituality day by day.

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My daughter often asks me about the meanings of palm lines. That was exactly what I did to my grandfather when he was still alive. So, I tried to convey my memories and knowledge about the meanings of palm lines as much as I can.

My daughter’s life line was cut in half at the age range of 40 years old. As far as I know, it means something drastic in life will happen around the age. So, in her case, when she is around 40 years old, she might experience something unusual. It cannot be said good or bad. A tough experience usually will turn out a great leaning for the person.

For example, she might have a near-death experience. The experience might sound tough, but it might turn out to be one of the greatest experiences for her. Or, she might experience to stop the previous life style. It can be changing job from the old one to a new one. Sometimes old habit has to be ceased in order to start something new.

I told her not to worry. It might be something that she planned for a life-changing event. She will always receive supports from her family spirits. Whatever happens to her will be good for her all in all.

She said she does not remember such transitional life plan. She wanted to change her life line to a normal line.

I told her everybody can change their life plan as they like. As for the palm lines, they can simply draw lines as they like.

For example, if they want to make their life longer than they planned, they can simply extend their life line with a ball-point pen. Or other people might want to have a long and solid marriage line, instead of having some short and weak marriage lines. In this case, they can draw one strong solid marriage line.

As they do this procedure every day, they can change their palm lines. This is due to our free will. We can change our life plan as we like, and as we go in life.

After heard my explanation, my daughter started drawing a strong solid line in her life line every day. She also started drawing an extended line on my life line. She wants me to live longer for her and her children-to-be.

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Here in southern Arizona, we are enjoying Monsoon. Unlike Japan where raining in morning and daytime is common, we seldom have rain in the morning and daytime. We usually have rain in the evening and night. Autumn is coming very close day by day. So far, the weather in our area goes normally as previous years.

On the other hand, Japan seems to have extreme weather this year.

All of my friends in Japan told me about their “abnormalness” in the weather in their area. Some friends mentioned about the extreme high temperature as 40C (104F) in their areas. I’ve never experienced this high temperature while living in Japan.

The other friend mentioned about the abnormal rainy season in her area. This year the rainy season ended much earlier than the previous years.  

My parents recently experienced the historic heavy rain in their area.

Weather does affects people’s feelings. Anything extreme can disturb their peaceful in their mind.

I sincerely hope the weather in Japan will soon get back to normal, so that the people can have their peaceful live back to normal.

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Today I was embraced by yellow butterflies all day long.

This morning when my daughter and I was about to leave for school, right next to the entrance door, a yellow butterfly came very close to my body. It was as if saying “Hey, wonderful morning!” The butterfly was surrounded by high frequency.  

After I dropped my daughter off at the school, I was walking back home from school. During the 30 minutes’ walk, I encountered several more yellow butterflies here and there.

Reached at home, I started hanging the laundry in my back yard. There again, a beautiful yellow butterfly was dancing around our damp clothes.  

In the evening when my daughter came back from school, she told me she kept seeing butterflies. For her, she saw a yellow butterfly and a white buttery in many different situations and locations. One white butterfly even landed on her shoulder and stayed there for a while.

The butterflies for sure made our day brighten up.

What a lovely way for our family spirits to say they love us.   

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This is an update of my letter to Universe. Back in April, I sent a letter to Universe about our neighbor.

Some of you might remember about my previous post.

There was one neighbor who acted weird. They were a family of dad, mom, and two little daughters. The children were fine. They greeted us normally. But the parents were weird. They were the only ones in this neighborhood whom we don’t greet.

The husband constantly smoked some types of weeds or cigarettes. Maybe he was in high. There once he almost run over my husband by his car. There was no apology from him. It was just weird and scary.

He always parked his car in front of our house. I don’t know why he didn’t park his car in his property. He could park his car in his garage or driveway. At least he could park in front of his house, not ours. Furthermore, he always scattered his cigarette litters and even a lighter on the street. The street was in front of our house.

The husband and the wife frequently argued and fought in front of their daughters. I witnessed the police cars and ambulance parked in front of their house. I saw it happened at least three times.

I didn’t see exactly what happened.

According to other neighbor, after they heard the violent arguing voice and sound (throwing things on the wall), the ambulance came. The other neighbor saw the wife was carried out on a stretcher from the house.

I felt uneasy and uncomfortable to have this kind of weird neighbor.

With all these nuisances, I sent a letter to Universe about that. The letter was sent on April 5th.

My request was finally heard. Two weeks ago, I saw a huge moving truck parked in front of the house. They moved out forever.

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I wanted to share this story as a powerful evidence of our manifestation. Sending a letter to Universe is a cool way to request our favors to Universe. This one took 2.5 months to be manifested. Some requests might be manifested much more quickly. The actual time might be different based on the request, but I can assure you “it sure works”.    

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Yesterday was my mom’s detailed examination day. Before I went to sleep last night, I prayed for her. She always tells me that she cannot go before my dad. She knows my dad needs her.

So, I prayed to my family spirits and my mom’s guide spirits to listen to my mom’s wish. Please let everything go, based on my mom’s wish, for her highest goods.

While I was sleeping, she emailed me about the test result. The doctor prescribed her some medicine. There was no need for a surgery nor a hospitalization at this moment.

I shared the good news about my mom with my family. We are so relieved that she did not need to have a surgery nor stay in the hospital.

I am happy for my parents to have each other to survive their old days together.

My parents complain about each other to others. It is very rare for Japanese old couples to praise about each other in public. I know deep inside though, my parents love each other and support one another.

My mom always tells me “there are many things that only the two of the married couple know.” My parents have been together for more than 50 years. They must have gone through many goods and bad together. Their relationship is similar to war buddies.

The relationship between my husband and I is similar. We have known each other for 21 years now. We have already went through a lot together. We are definitely war buddies in life. 

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Today I received an email from one of my Japanese friends on this land. I was happy to hear from her. We exchanged our updates in our lives via emails. This is all I wanted for now. I don’t wish to have a big gathering with anybody.

We don’t contact nor see each other frequently. Last time we had a get together was in 2015. Still, I like her. I often think of her. I feel her as one of the closest friends on this land.

Back in 2009, I was eager to make best friends on this land. I probably expected too much from them. My friends-hunting did not turn out well. I ended up with arguing with some people on this land. I have some people whom I don’t want to run into anywhere. They include Whites and Japanese.

After all those things, I have started accumulating anthropophobia, the fear of people.

When I think back my life in Japan, I didn’t have this symptom at all. This is my new sickness I built up on this land.

I have noticed one thing. When I use the term anthropophobia, it sounds negative. But when I use the term “loving alone time”, instead, it sounds positive and happy. So, I decided to use the term to make me happy. I am simply loving alone time.

The important thing is I don’t need to push myself to go see many people whom I cannot spend time happily. Time is very valuable energy for me. I want to be very picky to select on the person whom I want to spend time together with. I have some trustworthy friends. I am happy to have them as my friends.

I am writing this, hoping my sharing will encourage somebody who feels the same as I do. You don’t need to waste your precious time and energy on somebody whom you don’t feel happy to stay together. It might sound selfish, but still it is very important for you.

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About one week ago, upon receiving my passport, the representative of Japanese Consulate General asked me to update some information that I registered as emergency contact throrgh their webpage. While I was browsing their homepage to update the information, luckily enough I happened to reach at the useful information.

It is about Japanese school textbooks. They provide textbooks to the Japanese children who currently live in a foreign country, in case their family is planning to go back to Japan and live there for the near future.

We are qualify for this condition. My husband and I have often talked about going back to Japan and live there. My husband recently has started taking the online course for one computer certificate. With the certificate, which is very difficult to pass though, we can definitely apply for the IT job position in Japan.

In order to request the textbook, I needed to enclose the passport copy of mine and my daughter’s, along with postal stamps and an envelope for return shipping. The representative told me they can send the textbooks only for the child’s current grade, as a general rule, but if they have enough in stock, they might be able to send the textbooks of previous grade, exceptionally. So, I added a letter requesting them to send 1st and 2nd grader’s textbooks if they can. I enclosed extra stamps and envelopes.

Today I received the textbooks for 3rd grader. It contains 9 textbooks. Japanese language, math, music, art and craft, calligraphy, moral education, anatomy, social study, and science.

I was surprised at the contents. Based on the textbooks, they already can read and write hiragana, katanaka, and even Kanji.

At my daughter’s elementary school, they don’t use any textbooks. I can somewhat know what they are studying from their homework. As far as I remember from her homework print outs, their learning speed and level are much slower and lower than Japanese schools. It is just based on my personal observation though.

My daughter still has another one more month left for her summer vacation. After receiving the textbooks, I have been pondering on how I can teach her. Since these textbooks are for the third grader, it is definitely too advanced for my daughter to learn. I hope they will send the textbooks for the 1st grader and the 2nd grader, so that she can start from the beginning.

Anyways, I appreciate to the Japanese government for their kindness. Thank you…

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Today I went to the local outdoor swimming pool with my family. After 20 minutes we swam in the pool, I felt stinging sensation in my skin. It was itchy and hurting at the same time.

I got out from the pool. I was surprised to see rushes in my arms and belly area. It seemed I was the only one who got rushes. Other people were enjoying in the pool. My daughter was totally fine. She didn’t have any rush.

I quickly went back home and took a shower. Then my rush went away within 10 minutes.

I don’t know what the cause was.

I have experienced this rush since this spring. It happens occasionally. It won’t stay for long. Usually it disappears within 30 minutes at the longest.

At first I thought it might stem from certain foods. Or it might stem from some dusts. It usually happens in the morning and goes away by noon time.

My husband thinks it might be allergic reaction to some pollen.

The Internet research shows it might stem from the malfunction in blood or some internal disease including diabetes and malfunction in liver or kidney.

In any ways, I need to do something for this rush. I will start with clean off the dust. I hope I will be rush free soon. It is not fun to have polka dot skin.

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