October is around the corner. My daughter’s school will have a one-week off for the autumn break in October.

My daughter has been counting days until the autumn break. She feels great about the break and it is a “thumbs-up” event. I secretly feels it as a “thumbs-down” event as I won’t have my alone time for the entire week.

That being said, I love spending time with my daughter. My daughter and I have started making a “to-do-list” during the autumn vacation.

She wants to create her own webpage, like I do. I offered her to add a page for her in my homepage. So, we will be working on creating her first homepage during the autumn break.

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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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