As I mentioned in my previous article, my daughter attended at Basic Electric club twice so far. It was held at the local library, taught by the volunteered instructor.

My daughter really liked the electric club, but there was a small problem. The basic electric club is held on the same time and the same day (Thursdays) with the art club at school.

In the previous two years, she had attended at the art club. My daughter likes the electric club and the art club equally. She had wished that she could have two bodies so that she could attend the both.

During such days, my daughter run into the art club teacher at school. The teacher was really looking forward to having my daughter at the art club again this school year. With the teacher’s nice and sincere words, my daughter decided to attend at the art club.

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The library director is a very nice person. I mentioned the library director about my daughter’s situation. Unexpectedly, the director offered my daughter the basic electric club on the different day, only for her. We set the day as Fridays, after school.

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So, today was the first day for my daughter to attend the special electric club. For the previous two clubs, my husband attended with my daughter. He was not available today, so I attended with my daughter. It was my first time to meet the electric club instructor.

The instructor is a part-time librarian. She is probably in her 70s. She has retired from her life-long career as an electric engineer. She had dealt with the airplane’s safety in terms of electrically calculating the angle of an airplane’s taking-off or landing. She seems to be intelligent.

The club was for about one hour and half. Today she taught Ohm’s law. We started watching a 20-minute video of the story of the German physicist George Ohm. Then, the instructor explained about the resistance with demonstrating by using her handmade circuit board and battery.

My daughter seemed to be interested in. Whenever the instructor asked some questions to my daughter, she answered to them properly. I was surprised at her understanding ability.

I learned Ohm’s law at my junior high school days. It will be definitely beneficial for my daughter to jump start in learning electric logic in such an early age. Among all, she likes this special club. It is like having a private tutor for free of charge.

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I needed to get a set of a bolt and a nut for our treadmill, so I went to the local hardware store. The store clerk helped me to find them, and I was ready to go to the cashier to pay for them.

Just before my reaching at the cashier counter, two other store clerks beckoned me. Both of them were smiling like a child. Because their smiling faces were cute, I put a smile on my face too and followed them.

When we reached at the certain isle, they both told me “Ta-da!!” They showed me something huge sitting on the store floor.

At first I thought it a huge rock. When I took a close look, I finally noticed they were extremely gigantic pumpkins.

They had put a label of their net weight on each pumpkins. They were “693lb” (314kg) and “382lb” (173kg.)

They were not for sale. One of the two workers bragged that the two huge pumpkins grew at his garden. He just wanted to show them to many people.

While I was watching the huge pumpkins, I thought of the theory of macrobiotics.

In the course, my macrobiotics instructor explained about the energy of yin and yang. Yin is the expansive energy, while yang is the contractive energy.

She talked about the difference between the western people’s land and Asian people’s land. She personally feels that in the western land such as America and Europe, the land energy seems to be yin energy, as their produces as well as the humans living there tend to be grow bigger and taller. On the other hand, in Asian countries, the produces and the humans living there tend to stay compressive as smaller and shorter.

I thought it interesting. Maybe the energy from the center of the Earth influences all the living creatures. In my personal experience, I know many Japanese people who have moved to America have gained their weight within the range of 10 to 20 pounds more than before. That includes myself. I guess I am getting the yin energy from the land and that is why I am gaining weight. I can use this as my excuses from now on.   

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I don’t use an alarm clock to wake up, except for some special days. I can naturally wake up with the sun light and many birds’ chirping and singing (they are kind of loud).

Not using an alarm clock is a good way to remember my dreams. I believe that is why I can remember the details of my dreams.

Recently for these past two weeks, however, I haven’t remembered the details of my dreams. When I wake up, I have certain feelings from my dreams. I haven’t had any negative feelings of scared, upset, angry, nor frustrated. Instead, I have had positive feelings of happiness, achievement, fun, and confirmation from my dreams.

This morning I wanted to ask my family spirits about the reason why I haven’t remembered my dreams recently.

Before I start my morning meditation, I read my daily calendar “Ask and It Is Given Perpetual Flip Calendar” created by Jerry Hicks and Esther Hicks.

Interestingly, my question was written on today’s message.

It says “your dream is a manifestation of what you have been thinking during your awake state.”

It made sense to me. I have been having peaceful days recently. And that is why I haven’t remembered the details of my dreams. My feelings of my dreams are the confirmation that I am doing well. I don’t need any messages or warnings at this moment through the details of my dreams.  

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In this past week, every morning when I opened the door to the back yard, I saw a white pigeon. It is always the same one. I feel the pigeon is female from its gentle and soft demeanor.

I still clearly remember the day when I saw her for the first time. It was about a week ago.

She was sitting on the cinder block I put on the ground to stabilize my hanging station.

Normal birds will fly away when I get close to them. Or, they either will fly away when I open the door. But this white pigeon stayed there even when I came very close to it. I stood right next to the pigeon.

I started worrying about the pigeon. I thought I should talk to her.

I asked her “hey, Ms. Pigeon, how are you doing? Why you don’t fly away from me? Are you hurt by any chance? Did you get injured in your wings and that is why you cannot fly?”

Weird enough, she seemed to being listening to me. She tilted her small head toward me.

I felt she replied to me “no I am not hurt. I can fly.”

Then, she flew normally in front of me, and porched at the gazebo bar, which is some feet away from the cinder block.

I talked to her again, “well I am glad you are not hurt. You like staying in my back yard?”

She flew back to the cinder block again, which was just beside of me, seemed to be replying to me “yep.”

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Since that day, almost every day the pigeon stayed at my back yard, at my laundry hanging station or my gazebo bars areas.

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I introduced her to my family. My husband said maybe the pigeon was planning to lay her eggs somewhere. But we could not find any eggs nor nests. My daughter named her as “Banana.”

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Today when I went outside, I saw Banana sitting on my hanging station. I also saw two dots on my bath mat. They were the bird’s poo. I looked at Banana and asked her if she did this to my bath bat. Again, she seemed to be listening to me. I told her showing the bath mat, “please don’t do this anymore. This is a bath mat and we wiper off our feet after taking a bath.”

She turned her little head toward the side, as if she felt embarrassed what she did.

Her gesture was so cute that I could not stop laughing. I told her “I forgave her but make sure not to do this anymore”. She listened to me without flying away from me.

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By the way we have a family of lizards in our back yard too, since last year. My daughter named them as “Push-up”, “Flower”, and “Mutton Stew”. We believe that Push up is the dad, Flower is the mother, and Mutton Stew is their child.

We are sharing our back yard with other living creatures.

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In this past week I had been thinking about my next acupuncture appointment. I had felt like I should cancel it for now.

This morning when I woke up, the very first thing popped up in my head was to cancel my next appointment.

I don’t remember my dream of this morning, but maybe I was discussing with my family spirits about that. And we came to a conclusion that I won’t need any more acupuncture appointments at this moment.

Please don’t get me wrong. There is nothing wrong in acupuncture. The acupuncture does work. As for me, the series of five acupuncture treatments triggered my good health. I feel it is time for me to try something new to accelerate my good health. Also, I do feel the necessity to go to a new acupuncturist as a second opinion.

So, I followed my intuition and contacted my acupuncturist, asked her to cancel my next appointment. I felt so good. I felt much lighter after that.

I still have some more herbal tea that my acupuncturist prescribed for me. The tea will last for another two weeks or so.

After the tea runs out, I want to try out yakuzen. I learned some yakuzen recipes in my macrobiotic courses and books. Yakuzen is the Chinese herbal medicine dishes.

I am planning to try to take Umesho-bancha and Azuki-cha to cleanse my blood system.

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Today we went to the local fair. It was held at the big park located to our next city.

We all had a fun on their attraction rides. We rode a Ferris wheel, a roller coaster, a fun slide, an obstacle course, and a merry-go-round.

It was actually my daughter’s first time to enjoy so many rides. While she was smaller, she would get scared to the carnival rides.

When we were about to leave, we saw a booth sponsored by the local home center store. The worker offered one flower plant to my daughter. She chose a white flower.

When the worker handed the plant to my daughter, she asked my daughter to take good care of the plant. I already knew she would do so.

My daughter is gifted in growing plants. When she waters them, she would talk to them, praise their beauty, and wish them to have a nice day. They are her tips to take good care of her plants.  

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Five years ago we bought a car. I personally don’t like buying anything with loan payments. So, we were planning to buy the car with cash.

The car dealer, however, insisted that we should use their auto loan program. They had a campaign at that time. It was an auto loan for 63-months with zero percent APR. He mentioned it was a great way to build our credit score.

Until then, I didn’t know anything about the credit score system in America. Here in this country, they have a very strange system in the credit score. You will need a high credit score for a huge amount of purchase such as a house. Your credit score affects your mortgage rate.

Now the tricky part is how to build your credit score. If you always buy something with cash, you will never built a high credit score. In order to build a high credit score, you need to buy something with using the loan payments.

Here are some examples. I never bought anything with loan payments by then, so that my credit score was extremely low. On the other hand, one family of my friends have very high credit score. It was because the husband and the wife constantly buy something with loan payments, even for a low price.

Taking these facts into our consideration, we agreed to buy the car with the loan payments.

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Today I received a letter from the loan company. It was a notification that my car loan payment was matured.

I was surprised at how quickly our days went by. It has been 63 months passed since we bought our car.

I felt great to reach at the finish line for this long run payments.

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Somebody once advised me to bring a whole bunch of toothpicks and Q-tips from Japan, as the quality is much higher than that of other countries. Thus, every time I went back to japan, I bought many of them and brought them back to my house. I’ve never used toothpicks made in America until now.

My daughter is under the process of her teeth being replaced from baby teeth to adult teeth. It is helpful for her to use a toothpick to get rid of leftover foods stuck between her teeth.

Recently we have used up all the toothpicks I brought from Japan. So, I bought a box of toothpicks at the local grocery store.

When I came back home and opened the box, I was shocked at the cheap quality of the toothpicks. No offense please; this is just my personal opinion though. When I used it, I felt like I am a twig from my yard. It is easily broken into several pieces.

Most of Japanese products are user-friendly. When I lived there, I took everything for granted. Once I am away from their products, I have started appreciating their user-friendly and sophisticated products.  

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