Today my husband and I had a conversation with a man at an organization on the phone. The organization is specifically for Native American people to help them to buy a house by giving some advice.

Within some minutes, we recognized the guy was a Native American. We didn’t ask his of his tribe, but we are sure he is.

There are some unique aspects to show when the speaker is Native American. Such aspects are shown in their way of pronunciation, their way of speaking speed, and their way of explaining things. Among all, they have unique sense of humor. When they say something funny, they don’t say it with laughing, nor changing the voice pitch tone up and down. Rather, they say it slowly and in a pretty calm voice tone pitch. It sounds like the person is out of the scene, observing things from outside, in a calm state.

I liked how this man explained things. In the conversation, he often said “that’s how it goes.” I often heard Native American people said this way. Based on my personal experiences, I feel many Native people are cautious. They don’t jump in any situation. They start observing. They carefully observe people and situation.

When I was young, one Native old guy often scolded me. He used to tell me “Don’t jump in. Don’t take chance. Observe first.” Those days, I didn’t like being scolded by anybody. Whenever he scolded me, I would stick out my tongue to him in my mind (I didn’t actually do it to him, just in my imagination).

Now that I am older than that time, I appreciate him for teaching me that way. Now I understand that observation is important and helpful for better understanding. I think this is one of their wisdom passed down generation by generation.   

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Today my family attended the parade meeting. My daughter’s school is going to attend the city’s Christmas parade. When her teacher selected us to be one of the parade walkers, she didn’t know the details, because it was their first time. They have never participated it before.

One leader/teacher shared the information as much as she knew about the parade. Based on the basic information, we will need to gather at the certain location at 3:30pm, wait and prepare for the parade. The parade will start at 5:30 pm. The small children will ride in the wagon with their parents. Since the wagon is not big enough, the maximum capacity will be 10 people. According to the leader, small children are preschoolers and kindergarteners. Depending on the situation, possibly, the 1st graders might be accommodated. That means my daughter cannot ride in the wagon and has to walk all the way. 

I quickly checked walking distance with Googlemaps on my cell phone. It shows 2.5 miles one way. Most likely we will need to walk back the same distance to our car where we park. That means we will have to walk five miles in total. And it will be dark night in December.

The leader also mentioned about traffic jam. The police will close a couple of streets for the parade, and even after the parade, they will be closed for little bit longer.

It reminded me of the time when we went to the city firework of the July 4th cerebration. The police closed the street that connected to our house. Normally it takes us 20 minutes back to our home. However, on the fire work cerebration day, due to the heavy traffic and the closed streets, we needed to wait for one extra hour in the city to be back home.

I don’t want to spend our precious time for waiting in a dark cold night. Especially, the day is my daughter’s birthday.

I took a look of my husband and my daughter. Since there were many other students, their moms, and teachers sitting close to us, I could not say anything to my family. With this silent eye contact with my family, I could tell they felt the same way as I did.

Right after I left the school, I told them “I don’t want to attend the parade walking.” They instantly agreed with me. I thought “wow, it is cool!” We can communicate with our loved ones telepathically or through a quick eye contact.

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My mom has been fighting against her health deterioration for these past three years. My mom and I had not communicated well for these nine years. Even when I was living close to her in Japan, she didn’t tell me everything in details. She would tell me after the certain time had passed from the certain event. She would start her story by asking me some questions like, “oh, by the way, do you remember xxxx?”

When I visited her in Japan in last month, she told me in person what exactly happened to her about her health issue. I didn’t know exactly what happened.

She has two best friends. Interestingly, they met each other at my junior high school. They met at the PTA meeting of my junior high school. It was when I was 13 years old. They have been best friends since then, for 34 years. More interestingly, I have heard about their kids’ names, but I don’t think I have ever even talked to them. It was common because my junior high school was a big school. There were 10 classes in one grade, and each class had 47 students. So, us kids were not friends, but our moms became life-long friends.

Anyways, back to my mom’s story.

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The three of them often had a get-together to have a cup of tea or coffee with some sweets (cakes or deserts), like, every month.

In June 2017, they gathered and had a cup of coffee together at the coffee store. My mom noticed one of them looked very sick.

Two days later from their gathering, my mom received a phone call from the police. They informed my mom of her best friend’s sudden death. Since her husband passed away some years ago, she was living alone. She hired a house maid who came to the house to clean the house. It was the house maid who found the dead body in the bathtub. The true death reason was not sure. At least the police confirmed it was not by committing suicide. She possibly slipped in the bathtub and hit somewhere and could not get out from the bathtub by herself.

On the next morning, my mom woke up feeling very sick. Something was wrong in her heart. She could not breathe normally. My dad was in the kitchen with her. He called an ambulance. At the hospital, my mom was treated in the ICU (intensive care unit).

My mom had been unconscious for a while. While she was in a dream state or unconscious state, she saw the late best friend standing by the bed. The friend did not say anything. She was just standing there and watching my mom. Even though her friend is not God, my mom started praying to her friend. She begged her to let her go back. My mom did not want to die yet. She kept on saying “I can’t go yet. Please let me go back. I just can’t. Not yet”.

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When my mom said that to me, it was clear to me the reason why my mom didn’t want to go yet. I told my mom the true reason was about me. My mom and I hadn’t seen each other for seven years. We had to make peace before she goes back to the Spirit World. That is why she came back to the physical world.

When I mentioned that to my mom, her tears started dropping on her cheeks. She lost her voice. She just nodded her head, over and over again, as her agreement.

On that day, my mom and I had a good talk. We made peace.     

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I mentioned in my previous article about our house hunting. My husband had a house tour guided by a realtor. He visited seven houses for sale. As a non-smoker, he could instantly smell the cigarette smell inside the house whenever the owner was a smoker. Six out of seven houses had a strong odor of cigarette all over the house. I was shocked. I thought people would smoke outside of the house, but it seems people in the area smoke inside the house.

Another factor that we recognized from this house hunting was about pets. Same as the cigarette smell, six out of seven houses obviously had in-house pets. My husband could spot the scratch marks from pets here and there inside the house. And that means there are hidden bathroom spots from pets all over the house. My daughter is allergic to pets’ hair. I don’t like to live in a house with pet’s smell.

Only one house did not have any odor of cigarette and pets. The entire house was remodeled. The house has two apple trees and two pear trees. With all other conditions in addition to the uncomfortable odors free, this house became his favorite.

I took a look of the pictures of the house many times, and I fall in love with the house too. Since then, my husband and I had a secret crush on this house. However, because the job offer was taken by somebody else, we cannot buy this house right away.   

And today, when I checked the house website again, the sign was changed from “Active” to “Pending listing.” I got shocked. That means somebody has already started the contracting process to purchase it.

It is like I have a secret crash on somebody and the person does not even know about me nor my feeling toward the person. I remember this feeling. In my high school days, I had a secret crash on one classmate. I never told him about my feeling. Eventually he started dating with other classmate. They were a good matching couple; a handsome boy and a beautiful girl. It is my bittersweet memory. To know the house is not available for us anymore is like the same feeling as that. A bittersweet and broken heart.

That being said, I know my true destined house is somewhere, patiently waiting for us to find it and buy it at the divine timing.

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My maternal grandpa taught me about palm lines when I was very small. Grandpa told me palm lines change as we grow. So, I had a habit to take a look of my own palm lines almost every day in my childhood days. I clearly remember how my lines were in my very young days.

The most outstanding and unique aspect about my palm lines was Masukake line (in English, it is called Simian line). I had this line on both hands. And now in my adult days, the lines gradually formed differently. My Heart lines on both hands gradually separated from other two lines (Head line and Life line), so they are not clear Masukake lines anymore. I can still see the connected lines but they are not as clear as my childhood days.

My Head lines are changed drastically too. In my childhood days, my both Head lines were very long and solid. They crossed over Mount of Moon and almost reached at my wrists. My grandpa told me I would be good at creating stories. In fact, I won several awards at elementary school for creative writing story contests.

Recently I noticed my Head line became shorter than before. That means now I have a tendency to make a decision instantly by my intuition.

It is interesting to check your palm lines frequently. You can objectively analyze your gradual change through the changes in your palm lines.

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Since I heard the news of cancellation of our moving opportunity, I have been thinking about our future moving. When and how it will happen? And where we will move?

I felt I should pull Angel cards so that my family spirits can show me any answers through cards.

I picked three card decks.

I pulled four cards from The Teachings of Abraham Well-Being Cards created by Esther and Jerry Hicks, and three cards from Native Spirit Oracle Cards created by Denise Linn. At last I pulled one card from Astrology Reading Cards created by Alison Chester-Lambert and Richard Crookes.

Here are my interpretations of the cards. I wrote down the first message that came into my mind.

From the card of “What’s my big hurry?” I felt I don’t need to be overwhelmed. There is no need to hurry for moving.

From the card of “There is nothing for me to guard against” I felt my family spirits are confirming me that I don’t need to worry about any unexpected bad things. I have an experience of our car being broken into. It happened in last May. I still have been suffering from the traumatic feeling. My family spirits want me to stop worrying about something like that. Anything bad is not going to happen to us anymore.

From the card of “The Universe knows me and the Universe adores me” I felt The Universe already recognizes me and heard my prayer. I should rest assured and let the Universe take care of it.

From the card of “When I’m feeling good, I’m allowing in good” I felt my task is to stay thinking positive and being happy. The Universe and spirits can easily support and help humans who are always happy and think positively, because their vibrations are high.

From the card of “Walking in beauty” I was drawn to the sun rise. I felt it means the beginning. I interpreted as “spring.” So, our moving might be in spring.

From the card of “Gathering your tribe” I felt I would meet my soul tribe at our new area. I really look forward to reconnecting with my soul tribe there.

From the card of “Dream Traveler” I was drawn to the body of water. I felt our moving area has its body of water.

From the card of “The Third House” I interpreted as the third month of the year. Our moving might be in March next year.

Thank you to my family spirits for conveying me such clear messages through cards. I really look forward to our moving in this coming spring.

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I had a conversation with one of my acquaintances on this land. It was interesting to hear about her younger days experiences.

Her husband was an active duty military. Their marriage life for more than 20 years went by quickly with lots of moving. They needed to move to other state almost every three years. They have two children and two dogs. Their frequent moving must has been tough for them especially when their children were still small.

After she lived in many different cities in different states, her husband retired from the military. Then they moved here in this area and started their own business. They have lived here for about ten years now.

What she mentioned astonished me. Among all the other areas she has lived, this area is her most favorite city to live. I know I should not say this often, but this area is not my favorite place to live. My body does not fit in the dry air with less rain. There is no water body such as ocean, river, or lake. The local people are not very nice. This is my personal impression and experience after living here for nine years.

On the other hand, she loves the dry air. She loves and appreciates sunny days. She grew up in the place where they had a huge amount of snow during winter time, so that now she hates snowy days. Here in this area, we seldom have snow. Even if we have some snow, it does not stay for long. It melts quickly.

And, she says the local people on this area are much nicer than other areas where she had lived. According to her personal experiences and opinions, in other big cities and other states, there are more obvious racial discrimination. According to her, the local people on this land are more open-minded and friendly than other cities. I totally disagree with her. But she might be right. I never lived in other area. I don’t have any other comparison factor living in other place in America.

Last but not least, she emphasizes its safety. She says this area is the only place where she feels safe. She does not feel the necessity to lock the car door or the house entrance door. She forgot to close the garage door for one night, but everything was intact. Eventually she stops locking the car door and the house door. In 60 years of her life, she says this is the only area that you can enjoy the total safety in America, as far as she knows.

Her last statement was an eye opener for me. I never thought of that, but I agree that this area is safe. I grew up in a safe area in Japan so that I took safety for granted. I just wrote in my yesterday’s article that we should not take anything for granted. In that sense, I appreciate her to make me realize the positive aspect of this area.

It made me realize the importance of recognizing more positive aspects about this land, instead of complaining about it. From now on, I should proactively try to find the positive aspects of this land, so that I can move this land with lots of appreciation.

I should love this area as much as I can, then, this area will love me back. And then, it will let me go.

Interesting, right?

This logic can be applied to human relationship as well. Love somebody as much as you can, then, the person will love you back. With the person’s unconditional love, you might feel released from any unnecessary love and hate tangling. You might feel free. 

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Today we finally had a maintenance person to switch from cooler to heater. We still need to use cooler even now. In fact, I needed to turn on the cooler for these past week. I cannot stand for the extreme heat, but I can survive with cold temperature. Honestly I didn’t want to switch it. I wanted to keep cooler all year around in case it gets very hot during winter. But unfortunately, I don’t have the right to make the decision because we are currently renting the house.

The realtor arranges the maintenance person to switch cooler to heater twice a year. We don’t have a right to say no. We just obey to the realtor because the person sounds always irritated or mad on the phone. I simply want to avoid contacting to the person as much as I can.

This year, the realtor arranged a different maintenance person from previous. The person showed up one hour late. There was no apology to arrive late. After his work, he didn’t clean up his mess. There was trash and dust all over the heater area.

That made me realize how good the previous maintenance person was. Whenever he needed to be late, he always gave me a call to let me know in advance. When he arrived 20 minutes late, he sincerely and politely apologized to me. He always brought a handy vacuum cleaner and a small broom. He cleaned the area before he left.

Since I came from Japan where we constantly receive high quality of services, I used to take it for granted to receive same quality of services. From this experience, I learned nothing cannot be taken for granted. Whenever I receive high quality of service, I should appreciate it, instead of taking it for granted.

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My husband was informed of a shocking news that the job opening position was already filled today.

It was a typical thing in a big corporation. My husband’s immediate supervisor/regional top person promised him that they can officially hire him at the job position. But the hiring process had been done by another higher up person in another state. It seems that the hiring personnel and the regional boss had not communicated very well. And my husband was not quite sure who has the higher authority in hiring decision. So, our opportunity to move to a seaside city has not been manifested.

That being said, please don’t worry about us. When we heard their decision, we got disappointed a little bit at first. But at the same time, we got relieved somehow.

The job was offered as the condition of starting date of January 1st 2018. It is just around the corner. Besides, we are not familiar with the new area. My husband has been there only for two weeks. My daughter and I have never been to there. Before we decide to take the job opportunity, we need to get to know the land energy and the local people. So, all in all, we are in a way relieved of this cancellation, so that it gives us more time to consider.

I know and feel that we will move to another city for sure within next year of 2018.

We will start taking a baby step by getting ready for moving. The best timing is after my daughter’s school year in May.

My daughter conveyed the message from angels. They are saying “Don’t get disappointed. It is coming. Take a baby step at a time. We don’t want to see you all panicked and overwhelmed.”

I can’t agree more. I don’t want to make a life decision like buying a new house in a panicky emotion.

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Today my Ki Gong teacher took me to the drum session. There I met 12 new people.

My first attendance of drum session was at Navajo Nation in 2002. Since then, I have attended at many drum sessions. Each drum session is unique and different.

Among them, tonight’s drum session was definitely one of my most favorite sessions. The leader set the theme of the session (today’s theme was manifestation) and led us with a certain types of rhythm. I liked her way of leading the participants. At most drum sessions, there was no particular rhythm. With her solid leading way, we could take off the spiritual journey together to the same destination. That was how I felt.

There were a variety of people in their nationality and skin color. And they brought different types of drums.

During the session, I lied down myself on the ground in front of the fire. I enjoyed the vibration on the ground coming from a variety of typed drums as well as people’s foot sound taking rhythm. While laying down on the ground, I enjoyed watching the clear sky.

I enjoyed the drum session itself. But the most precious experience for me tonight was to spend time together with my Ki Gong teacher. She visited me in my dream on Nov 14th, which I wrote in my short article. It made a great sense to me why she visited me in my dream. We had a lot to share and we needed to catch up with each other by sharing our stories.

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