My daughter had one baby tooth that needed to come out. It was the right front tooth.

The adult tooth was growing back of the baby one. We noticed this symptom at her last dental cleaning. The dentist told me if the tooth didn’t come out in another couple of weeks, I should make an appointment to pull it out.

The tooth didn’t come out after couple of weeks, but I wanted to wait her tooth naturally come out. So, I didn’t make an appointment.

It was at the end of June last year. Since then, her tooth was still there for eight months. I started worrying about it.

I looked up my homeopathic remedy guidebook. “Calc.” seemed to be a good remedy for this symptom. I also read some people’s reviews saying their children’s tooth naturally came out after several days of taking this homeopathic remedy.

I gave my daughter this remedy three days ago. I was supposed to give it to her every day, but I forgot about it.

It worked with such a small amount.

This evening my daughter felt somewhat unusual in the tooth. Once she touched it gently, it naturally came out. It was amazing.

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I woke up at 6 am. I run to the window and took a look of backyard. Although the winter storm warning was set from last night 11 pm, I saw nothing but wet ground in my backyard.

After the breakfast, when I was about to leave for a morning walk, my daughter stopped me. She said it started snowing hard. She wanted me to cancel my walking because it could be dangerous.

She was right. It started snowing very hard. It would be dangerous to walk, as a vehicle drivers would not see me walking.

It kept on snowing until late afternoon. We had a good amount of snow everywhere.

It was good that the school was closed, so that I could stay with my daughter. We enjoyed cuddling up together to stay warm.

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This afternoon I received a phone call from my husband. He relayed the emergency notice from my daughter’s school. The school will be closed tomorrow due to upcoming winter storm warning in Southern Arizona.

The public alerts says

“WINTER STORM WARNING.

* Heavy snow in the mountains. Expect total snow accumulations in the mountains of 10 to 20 inches between 5000 feet and 7000 feet and 20 to 40 inches with localized higher amounts above 7000 feet. The snow level will lower throughout the day with snow developing as low as 3500 feet. Total snow accumulations of 1 to 4 inches between 3500 and 4500 feet with higher amounts above 5000 feet can be anticipated. —- Quoted from Public Alerts Page

This is our first time of school shutting down due to snow. The alerts will be effected from 11 pm tonight to 8 pm tomorrow.

According to my daughter, some classmates started crying because they got so scared. I hope everything will calm down soon.

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I had my eleventh acupuncture treatment accompanied with tuina massage.

The tuina massage was so relaxing and calming. I loved it.

Today my acupuncturist recommended me the followings.

– Red Yeast Rice: to lower cholesterol

– Niacin / flush free: to treat high cholesterol and triglyceride levels

– Fish oil: to raise HDL (good cholesterol)

For the first two, I saw some side effect warnings from the internet research. I decide to keep doing more research before I purchase and take them.

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Since last night we had snow. This morning when I opened the curtain, I saw a nice quiet snow covered back yard.

I always love to have a quiet snowy day.

Only sad thing was though, today was the normal school day. I was not able to have a snow play with my daughter.

According to the weather news, we had the largest and brightest “supermoon” of the year. The peak of the “Snow Moon” was this morning February 19th 2019, at 8:54 a.m. in my area.

Unfortunately since the sky was totally covered by gray snowy clouds, I could not see it. Hopefully I will be able to enjoy the leftover full moon energy tonight.

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Today was a federal holiday observed President Day.

Last night when I checked the weather report, it said we would have a cold winter morning this morning. They foretasted the lowest temperature as -1C.

I woke up with the bright sun shine through the windows. I noticed it was already 9:30 am.  

I was shocked at the late hour I woke up.

But at the same time, I thought it was okay. Today was a holiday anyway. My daughter didn’t miss the school.

Maybe the morning got very, very cold, so that my body needed some more extra sleep.

My daughter on the other hand, was awake while I was having an extra sleep. She said she was up since 6 am. Interestingly, whenever she doesn’t have school, she tends to wake up earlier than usual.

I recall my younger days. I was like her. My body intuitively recognized the differences between school/work days and off days.

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I watched the movie Smoke Signals (1998) on DVD. It was my second time to watch it.

My first time was back in 1999. I watched it at the theater in Japan. Since this movie was not a big title, I needed to go to the theater in the bigger city.

I went to the theater alone. Simply because I wanted to weep whenever I wanted, without feeling embarrassed to my company.

I shed tears at the scenery where the main character, Victor, run through 20 miles to get some help after he had a car accident. While he was running, he had flash backs of the memories with his late dad. When his physical body almost reached its limitation, he saw a hallucinated image of his late father, holding his son’s body with his both arms. In the reality, it was a road worker man who happened to be there.

I was touched at this scenery. I know spirits can send earth angels whenever they want to support their loved ones. I believe it was his late father who sent the earth angel to help his son.

At that time I experienced many miracles to save my life. Now I know it was my family spirits who sent me many earth angels, so that I could fully believe in them. With their support, I had come to be able to believe in me.

 

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Fast-forwarding to current year, in 2019, while watching the same movie, I shed tears at the different scenery.

It was the scenery where the police officer accused Victor for the car accident. The police officer believed the other party of the car accident. The other party lied that Victor was drunk and driving. It was a stereotyped image toward Native Americans. Both of the police officer and other party were White.

It was just one scenery, but it touched my soul. I could not control my tears falling down. It was not physical me, but my soul, who was shedding tears.

My soul remembered these kinds of discrimination over and over again in my past lives. These uncomfortable experiences were imprinted in my soul.

In this lifetime, I am a foreigner in this country. I experience racial discrimination in the daily basis, which I never experienced while living in Japan.

Let’s face to the reality.

Even though we are living in the new era; we are not in 1800s nor 1900s anymore, racial discrimination is still going on in this country.

I believe there are things each one of us can do to fix it.

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Each one of us should think about our desires.

Each one of us should pray for our desires.

Each one of us should discuss about our desires with others.

Each one of us should take a small action every day.

Because I want to change the bad habit.

Because I want peace between all the races.

Because I want to live in the world where everybody is nice and kind to each other.

As my baby step, I keep myself being trustworthy.

As my baby step, I keep myself being nice and kind to others.

As my baby step, I keep speaking up about my desires.

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My family and I browsed around some hardware stores such as Home Depot and Lowes along with Walmart.

All of them already had some herb plants available at their garden areas. They looked healthy. I wanted to buy some, but postponed to some more months later.

Because the weather report says we will have another snows coming up soon, the plants will not survive.

At the end of January, I participated in the microgreen project. The local library offered us some microgreen seeds of broccoli, sweet peas, and sun flower. I keep the planting trays by the window so that they get enough sun light. Our indoor plants are growing healthily.

Our outside plants on the other hand, they are still hibernating. It gets very cold in the morning and the night. They need to sleep some more months.

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Today I had an uncomfortable experience at school.

I walked to the school to pick up my daughter. When I was entering to the school parking lot, I heard kids’ voices saying “Hi”. I looked around. Within the 360 degree range, I was the only one. I looked toward the voices. There were four kids waiving at me and kept on saying “Hi” to me. They were inside of the playground, standing at the fence.

Considering from their height, they are probably 7th graders or 8th graders.

I could not see their faces clearly, but I don’t have any acquaintances in the grades, so they are strangers to me.

I waived back to them even though I didn’t know them personally.

On the next second, an unusual thing happened.

The four kids consisted of two girls and two boys. One girl pointing one boy who was standing right next to her, told me “Hi Mrs., he said he likes your butt. He said you have a nice butt.”

I really couldn’t believe what I just heard.

Back in my younger days I have heard similar statements from stranger boys in America. I was then in my 20s or 30s. I didn’t feel comfortable for their statements, but I could not do anything about it. I didn’t say anything to them and quickly left the spot away from them.

This time the situation is different from then.

It happened at the school property. The statement was made by the students in the school playground.

I am a mother. I should not be treated as a young single girl anymore. I should be treated with respects.

I really didn’t feel comfortable to the kids’ statement today.

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I mentioned it to my daughter. She said the kids were rude. She was mad about the kids’ statement toward me. She said if that happened to her, she would yell back something to them, something like “Stop!!”

My daughter advised me not to tell my husband about today’s incident. We know he would get upset about it. He is protective about me. He can be a mother bear for me and my daughter.  

I honestly don’t know what to do about it.

At least I am happy that my daughter knows the proper reaction. I should have yelled back to them right away, something like “Stop!!“ in order to show my anger to them.

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