This morning in my dream, my daughter and I were visiting my mom in Japan. We stayed at the nice hot spring hotel. The next day we went to Japanese garden.

It was a beautiful garden with lots of healthy green trees and plants. The water in the pond was clear blue. I felt it was a morning in summer.  

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Then I woke up from my dream. It was a relaxing dream. I felt we all were healed in some level.

I still vividly remember all the colors. The clear blue in the sky, the pure white in the clouds, the lively red and yellow in birds, the beautiful greens in tree leaves, and the sparkling clear color in pond. And all the people we met in the garden had sparking pure clear energy around them. My mom, my daughter, and I had the pure energy too.

For some reasons, the people, whom I met in my dream, kept on telling me the word “Kenrokuen Garden” over and over again.

Kenrokuen garden is located in Ishikawa prefecture. This garden is known as one of Japan’s “three most beautiful landscape gardens” The other two gardens are Kairakuen in Mito and Korakuen in Okayama. Many people consider Kenrokuen the best of them all.

Maybe my mom is thinking about visiting Kenrokuen with us. I remember my mom has been there once and she liked it very much. I have never been to there before. Maybe my mom is suggesting me to go there sometime.

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One of my good friends shared her recent experience.

Her mother passed away. She was 91 years old. My friend’s dad had passed away 30 years ago. Since then, her mother had lived by herself. Her last sickness in her kidney put her in the hospital. She had been bedridden in the hospital since the beginning of this year. The pain was unbearable, and the mom started telling her daughter (my friend) that she wanted to leave from her body as soon as possible.

So, my friend knew her mom’s last day would come soon. Upon her mom’s death, she could somewhat cerebrate her departure. She had been okay after the funeral.

After the funeral and some paperwork procedure, my friend got a cold. She couldn’t get rid of the cold for two months or so. It made her body weak and sick. She had suffered from extreme pain in her throat and bones.

She said everything finally started calming down.

She probably had accumulated lots of emotions without knowing by herself. Her hidden emotions needed to come out in some ways. She needed to rest well her physical body along with mind and spirit.

Seeing somebody off to the spirit world is a tough task. Especially in the case when the departed person is your parents.

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While I was listening to my friend’s experience, I was thinking about my dad.

My dad used to tell me in my younger days, that the most important filial piety for a child is to live longer than the parents. He started saying this to me even when I was an elementary school kid. When I was young, I would laugh and told him not to worry. I naturally thought I would live longer than my dad.

Thinking back to those days, I understand better than before, on why my dad said that to me.

My dad was born before the World War II. Everybody at that time was poor, surviving day by day. My dad went through before, during, and after the war. He has so many tough challenges in his life. His dad passed away when my dad was very small. My mom went through the same way. My mom’s mom died when she was two or three years old. In my parents’ generations, they could not take it for granted to live healthy and long life.

I want to live longer than my parents as they wish. I know it is going to be a very tough task to see them off to the spirit world, but I will eventually do the task.

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I cannot believe we’ve already reached to the later part of the year.

So far, for the first six months of this year, I have been working on recovering my good health. I started muscular training on the daily basis on March 28th. I also started going to acupuncture treatment on May 2nd. With my acupuncturist’s advice, I started taking Chinese medicine herb tea since May 17th.

It was a bit hard for me for the first couple of days to make this as routine. Once it became my daily routine, it is easy for me to stick with the routine.

I am glad that I started something new in this year. I will continue doing this good routine for the rest of my life.

I am sure “future-me” will appreciate to “current-me” to have achieve this good daily routine. It is a long term investment to myself.

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Today I went to the state capital city again. Consulate General of Japan in Los Angeles offered a visit service for us. Today was our second trip to receive my new passport.

Same as the last time, the Japanese staff members dealt with the procedure swiftly. I am always impressed with their politeness and smartness.

I am glad that I won’t need to worry about renewing my passport for the next ten years.

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After my chore, we went to LEGOLAND. It was my daughter’s strong suggestion. She insisted we should go, because we don’t have LEGOLAND in our area.

We arrived there 10 minutes before their opening hour. At the ticket area, there was already a long waiting line. After waited for 20 minutes, we finally could buy our tickets. Then again, we needed to wait to enter the facility again for some more minutes.

Right after the entrance, they took a family picture individually. Then, certain number of people could proceed to the next room. At the next room, there were four home theater screens with several game controllers. The door connects to the next door was automatically closed, so that nobody could go to the next room.

The next room was connected to somewhere. In the isle, we needed to wait again for a while in the waiting line. I started feeling annoyed for the long waiting.

Finally, we saw the next room. It was actually a ride just like Disneyland. The family could ride individually in the cart. There was a laser gun for individual customer. As the cart moved, we could shoot the bad guys with the laser gun. When I hit correctly, the gun vibrated and the score was showed in front of me in the small screen.

It was so fun. I fully enjoyed the ride. My daughter and husband sat in front seat. Their scores were much higher than mine. That means they were having fun. I was happy for that.

After the ride, we didn’t need to wait anymore. There was a huge rom with many different areas where we could visit as we liked.

At the time when leaving, we fully enjoyed staying there. We would visit there again for sure.

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I took my daughter to the dental clinic for the routine dental cleaning. Before we go to the dental clinic, we always pray for no cavity. So we did, as always.

The hygienist cleaned my daughter’s teeth. After it was done, her teeth was sparkling white.

The dentist is a young male. He always puts a happy smile on his face. I wish I could go to this dental clinic, but this is only for children under 18 years old.

After his checkup, the dentist put his even bigger smile on his face and told her “Yay, no cavity. You are doing pretty good.”

We were so happy to hear him saying that.

So far, my daughter has done well. No cavity so far.

When I was at her age, two of my front teeth were black with cavity. Other adult teeth came out yellowish. They were brand new, but unfortunately, they were far from sparkling white from the beginning.

Among my generation people, in Japan, the yellowish teeth was kind of common. I was not the only one. I think it relates to food that our moms took during their pregnancy. Or, it might result from the food that we ate those days. Something was not that good, I guess.

The color of teeth and the health of teeth have been my inferiority complex for my entire life.

I truly hope my daughter will keep her sparkling white and healthy teeth for her entire life.

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This morning I woke up laughing.

In my dream, I bought something at the store. The price was $1.17. The text of the amount was shown to me in bold font.

I thought to myself “okay, I probably need to remember this number.”

Then, right before I woke up from my dream, the scene changed to that of like a movie. You have watched the movie Star Wars, right? It was like the opening crawl of Star wars. The number 117 was scrawled to me to the front.

I love my family spirits. I love their sense of humor. They made me laugh so much at the beginning of the day.

I was curious about the message of the number “117”. When I googled “the meaning of the number 117”, I saw many people mentioned the message is “You are on the right path.”

I think what they mean by saying “the right path” is my attendance of Writer’s Work Shop in November. I am excited about it. I hope I will meet the right person whom I am supposed to reconnect in this lifetime. I am thinking about meeting my soul sister.

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During my meditation, the message to my soul sister popped up. I want to share this here with you.

Dear my soul sister.

Where are you?

I have been looking for you for years.

I am little shy.

I am naïve that I cannot ask a whole bunch of people if anybody knows any information to find you.

I always look for the wrong direction to find you.

So, my dear sister, please find me.

Please find me and come to me, and talk to me.

Once you come to talk to me, once I look into your eyes, I will know you are the right one.

By then, I keep having a positive thought on us.

Once we find each other, we can help each other to take much more steps forward together.

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Today was my 4th acupuncture treatment.

As for the diagnosis of my tongue and pulse, my acupuncturist said my kidney got much stronger than before. Liver also showed some progress. Spleen showed a slight improvement. It was great to hear that my body has been improved for these two months.

Our topic was changed about my blood pressure. My blood pressure tends to be high. Whenever I went to the clinic, it was around 140/90. The doctor asked me if I wanted her to prescribe the medicine for blood pressure. My response was of course “No”.

According to my acupuncturist, there are some people who easily get nervous about checking their blood pressure. That causes them to have high blood pressure at clinics or hospitals. When they are calm at home, their blood pressure is not high at all, within the normal range.

When she checked my blood pressure, it was high. It was 156/98 before the treatment. The value was extremely high for me. Right after the treatment, in my most relaxed status, my acupuncturist checked my blood pressure again. It was lowered than before, but still high. It was 140/90.

After I came back home, I went for a walk for 20 minutes. Then, I checked my blood pressure with my home machine. It was pretty normal value; 125/83.

I guess I am one of the types. I don’t think I need the medicine for high blood pressure.

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In the morning on our way walking to school, my daughter and I saw a unique shaped clouds.

I thought of Goddess with long hair, pointing upward. Her long hair seemed to be waived by wind. She seemed to leading people. I thought it as a sign, that spirits are really supporting us to the upper dimension.

To my daughter, it looked like a mermaid, enjoying her morning swimming in the ocean.

I always feel amused that we receive different visions and messages from one same thing.

In either way, this cloud made our day.

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I am learning new English terms from my daughter.

Recently I heard her often saying a verb, “mesmerize”. From the context before and after she used this verb, I could tell the verb as something positive meaning. She explained the meaning as “being strongly attracted.” The dictionary says its meaning as “strongly attracted, as if with a magnet”.

The other time I noticed her using the other verb “improvise”. From the context before and after she used this verb, I guessed the verb meaning something creativity. The dictionary shows its meaning as “create and perform (music, drama, or verse) spontaneously or without preparation.”

She sometimes correct my pronunciation of certain English words. She never did that in a mean way. She always keeps her kindness and politeness. I never got offended by being corrected by her.

She often asks me the meaning of some Japanese words, whenever she watches Japanese show. I teach her and she quickly remembers it.

She is teaching Japanese words to my husband too. Whenever my husband pronounced some words in Japanese, she would praise him like “Wow! You said it just right. Amazing. Keep going!”

She says she wants to become a preschool teacher in the future. I am pretty sure she will be the kindest and best teacher ever.

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I finished reading the book The Boy Who Knew Too Much: An Astounding True Story of a Young Boy’s Past-Life Memories written by Cathy Byrd.

Her two-year old son started taking about his past life memory. This is probably common for toddlers, but what was different from other parents was the author had the passion to reveal the truth. Her passion was so great that she successfully proved what her son said was true.

I felt her book as special. I think the author is around my age. Her son and my daughter were born just one year apart. She attended the Hay House Writer’s workshop in Maui in 2016, and won the first prize to publish her first book from Hay House.

It seems to me that her book was supposed to be published. She got lots of supports from her guide spirits and angels for this project. It was just amazing.

Her book was done in excellent way. It takes a reader to a journey. Once you start the journey, you don’t want to stop it. I felt a little sad when I was getting closer to the end of the book. After reading the book, I felt some type of completion feeling as I had gone to the journey with her. I enjoyed reading her book a lot.

The author says her son has something in common with Lou Gehrig. They both are let-handed and have prominent dimples. She says in the book that “it is quite common for physical traits to carry over from one lifetime to the next.”

This sentence made me think of my face. I like my face. I of course look alike with my Japanese parents. But for some parts, my face looks like Native American, which I believe it is not resembled to my parents. I don’t have straight long hair. My hair is rather short with curly. But still, I do have the unique trait.

I believe this is my trait from my past life. As I get older, I look like Native American even more. And I am loving it.

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