I went to the grocery store and bought three gallon bottles of vinegar. Most of the times, the casher asks me some questions why I need that much vinegar. However, today was different.

The cashier smiled at me and told me that vinegar was very useful. I agreed with her. I was happy to hear her saying that. I told her that I use vinegar for a cleaning, a bath, and a laundry softener.

The cashier smiled even bigger and nodded. She said she also buys lots of Bolax. I smiled even bigger too and nodded, saying “Yep, I do too”. I told her that I also buy lots of baking soda. She said “Yep, I do too.”

This small conversation with the grocery cashier made my day. I was happy to know that I met somebody who has her daily life in an eco-friendly frugal way.

Nowadays, I have witnessed some better changes at the local grocery stores. One example is that the space for organic produces is getting bigger and wider. Another example is that the variety of oils are getting available, starting from coconut oil, avocado oil, and flaxseed oil. These were difficult to find in the local grocery stores two years ago. I think they are great improvements for all of us.

Today, I ordered a set of beeswax food wrap. These are replaceable for plastic wraps. I am looking forward to them arrive so that I can contribute to the eco-friendly frugal life. Small but steady and powerful, right?

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I watched a comedy show DVD: American Indian Comedy Slam (2010). In this comedy show, seven Native American comedians make the audience laugh.

Among the seven comedians, I loved the Charlie Hill’s show the best. For the people who wants to know about Charlie, I found his younger day’s video in Youtube. It says the show was on the Richard Pryor Show in 1977.   

Charlie mentions white people should come to native people for advice because Native people have the owner’s manual. Native people taught the Whites democracy and how to fight with British people to become independent. As for how to deal with terrorists, native people have been fighting with terrorists since 1492.

One of the reviewers said that the person could not laugh. Perhaps, the reviewer was a white person. He/she might have gotten offended by hearing about Native people saying about Whites. Maybe this comedy show is not for white people. But this is definitely needed for native people who had not been allowed to speak up for a long time up until now. By laughing very hard, they are healed somewhat. I feel that Charlie is speaking on behalf of their ancestors.

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My daughter prays to her angels before she goes to bed every night. She calls this ritual as her private time. She covers herself by a blanket and whispers to her angels.

It is very cute. Whenever she does that, I stop doing whatever I am doing, and just listen to her prayer. Her prayer goes like this.

Dear my angels.

Thank you for today.

Thank you for protecting me and my mom & dad.

Thank you for giving me all the fun time.

Thank you for everything you do.

You are the best angels ever.

I love you all.

Good night and see you tomorrow morning.

I love hearing her prayer. I am pretty sure her angels feel the same way. I think they look forward to hearing my daughter’s prayer every night.

If I were her angel, I would definitely keep protecting her and loving her. For example, if I have two or more humans to guide, I will more prioritize the human who always greets me and appreciates me, rather than other humans who never recognizes me nor appreciates me. It is a normal reaction.

I think this can be applied to other humans too. If we keep sending others our pure love and appreciation, they will feel the same way as we do. Let’s stay being the beloved one from our angels, as well as other humans, by sending our love to them.

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Today I want to share some of my knowledge.

I am a star person. I came from a star. Most of star people love to be incarnated to be born as Native American, because our concepts and messages are similar to theirs.

I have met some people who believe all the human beings came from a star. I don’t argue with them. I feel some of the souls are originated from a star, while the majority of the human being souls are belong to the planet Earth.

There are many different stars. Some of the stars are highly matured and advanced in their spirituality, while some of the stars are still in their learning process.

Being incarnated in the planet Earth is a challenge for a highly matured star person. Although they came from an advanced knowledge in spirituality, the influence of other souls’ heavy and dull energy can easily pull the star people’s energy down. This is why it is critical for star people to find their soul tribe, so that they can support each other on remembering who they truly are.

Also, I feel a star person can be incarnated in other lives in other planets or stars simultaneously. Have you ever experienced the moment you are away from your physical conscious and received some thoughts that are not belong to you? I have experienced it many times. I think we are constantly communicating with other parts of our soul telepathically. Every thoughts and actions of ours easily change the outcome just like a kaleidoscope.

Another my thought is about UFO and alien. I feel it is only in the planet Earth where we have a physical body. In other stars or planets, souls can be incarnated without a physical body. They exist in a different dimension. They can contact humans through telepathy. All we can do is to feel them. Since humans don’t believe unless they actually see in their physical eyes, some star people created an alien form just to catch humans’ attention. 

I wrote this just to share what I feel. I might be wrong. I am sure one thing though. Once we are done for this life and leave from our physical form, everything will be cleared up.

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This morning when I dropped my daughter off at the school, I talked with one of the school teachers. She mentioned she would not work for this school anymore. She got a new teacher job at the different school from this August. I congratulated her for her new job position and tried to leave there quickly, because I knew what would happen next.

My guess was right. She started complaining about this school on how bad the higher-ups and the management were. I knew she would say something bad about this school because the same things happened many times before. I have heard same things from other several teachers who already left this school.

Also, I have heard similar complains about this school from other students’ moms too. They complained about the school’s managements as well as the low academic level. In these two years, I know at least more than ten students who moved to another school, because the moms didn’t like this school.

I personally don’t have any complains about this school. I am okay as long as my daughter is happy and safe. I know the academic level of this school is low. This was my only concern about this school. I had tried to teach my daughter math and English, but it always ended up making my daughter cry, so I completely stop doing that.

I thought about my own elementary school days. I don’t remember about studying hard, but I do remember I played with my friends by playing baseball, dodgeball, or running around. During the summer time, we walked to the ocean. It was only 10 minutes walking from our house. We swam in the ocean without any adults’ surveillance. We explored an old and vacant house. Whenever we found a homeless man, we talked with him. My elementary school days was full of adventure.

So, after thinking back of my younger days, I decided not to worry about my daughter’s academic level at this moment. She is still small. She deserves to have fun in exploring this world. I am sure she will catch up with others whenever she has to. I believe in her understanding ability. Perhaps, my parents believed in me too, and that is why they never told me to study.

All in all, when raising children, there is no right or wrong answer. Kids are smarter than what parents think. They have the right answer for them at every time.

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Everything is connected. Everything is changing.

These concepts came up because I’ve read some of my friends’ email talking about their loved one going through their aging process.

It includes my mother and even myself. It is our destiny that all the living creatures go through. Once we are born, we all go forward to our death.

It is very tough to witness your loved one’s aging process, especially their final step of transition. Their aging seems to be obvious and solid. Their body functions slow down day by day.

I felt blessed to hear that all of my friends understood the transitional process. They all told me that they would not cling on their loved one.

They would accept their loved ones’ best time to leave from this physical realm. We all have our own best timing to leave. It is supportive and helpful if we have family and friends who lovingly see us off at our best timing, rather than clinging on to us.

That reminds me of my dad. When I was 24 years old, our dog passed away. My dad told me it was his time to leave. My dad continued to tell me that all the creatures die taking turns. He told me like this.

The older one dies and makes a room for a new one to be born. In my family, our dog Hichi was destined to die first. Then most likely my dad will go the second. My mother will follow him the next. Then either my brother or I follow the next. After that, my children follow, then my grandchildren follow. That way, the life continues. It is like a handing over the baton to the next generation.

Then, my dad faced toward me and told me this.

Please follow this order. Don’t die before your parents.

When I heard this from my dad, I got goosebumps. I didn’t fully understand about my dad’s feeling those days, but now that I have a daughter, I understand his feeling quite well. I think all the parents feel the same.

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I don’t like my current body weight. I feel myself heavy and ugly. I was not like that in my younger days.

While I was young, I used to like my face and body. I used to brag about my high metabolism. I never needed to control my diet or daily exercise.

Even after I gave my daughter a birth, I went back to my original weight right away. I had nursed her for two years and four months. Breastfeeding kept my high metabolism too. No matter how much and how frequently I ate, I never became fat. I used to think I would be like this for the rest of my life.

But it didn’t happen like that.

After I stopped breastfeeding at the age of 42, I started getting fat. And I got very sick. I was diagnosed as a severe diabetic. I had a miscarriage from that.

At the age of 45, I started taking good care of myself. I exercised a lot and ate less. My main food was switched to apple and celery. My weight got back to my original one, and my blood sugar was improved. I stayed in a good shape with less weight for one year.

Then, at the age of 46, until now, I gained back and my blood sugar went back to the bad condition.

Currently, I am feeling stuck. I have been making efforts on exercise. I walk 2 mile in the morning and 2 mile in the evening. I even add some other exercise such as yoga or Zumba during the day time. I think I have enough exercise for a day, every day. But still, I am not losing my weight at all. I sometimes feel I am even getting bigger day by day.

So from today, I started the weight loss hypnotherapy. This is the one I bought in 2014, and it worked well for me. Today’s my weight is 138 lb. My goal is 122 lb. I will update of my result. Please send me your prayer for my success in losing weight.

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Now that I decided to go back to Japan to see my parents, I have spent these days feeling lighter than before. This made me realize my former concept was wrong.

My former and wrong concept was about my mom.

I had many traumatic issues with my mother. I had felt scared of seeing my mother. I made my mind not to see her again. I thought that my mother and I would be able to make peace after her death. I had given up making peace while she is still alive.

Now I changed my mind, and my new concept is like this.

It is much easier to make peace while we are alive. All in all, we came back to this lifetime to re-write any unfinished businesses from our past lives. Why should we create a new unfinished business while we are alive?

I still feel scared of seeing my mother, but at least, I should do my best to make peace.

It will be much easier than regretting and making peace after we die. Let’s deal with any unfinished business while you can. It might be easier than you think.  

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I subscribe a newsletter from 幻冬舎 (Gentosha Inc; Japanese publisher). I always look forward to their newsletter. Whenever I receive it, no matter how I am busy, I make time to read it.  

I love their newsletter because it starts from a short letter to readers from the representative. It is around 300 letters in Japanese, which is relatively short, but it is always fun to read.

It had been fun for me to imagine about the writer of the short letter. At the beginning, I had imagined the writer would be a middle-aged man, because most of the contents were about the current news and political issues. Then, gradually, the contents were changed to something lighter, such as a story in daily life. That made me imagine the writer might be a young girl in her 20s. However, in the recent newsletter, the writer mentioned that it is a man aged of 34.

Now I enjoy his short letter even more than before. It is fun to get to know him, although I never met him in person.

I hope my short articles are the same way to somebody whom I never met in person. I hope my short articles will make my reader’s day brighter.

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When I was in 20s and 30s (1990s and 2000s), I frequently took an airplane for both domestic and foreign trips. Those days the travel by an airplane was not hard for me at all.

There are many reasons for me to say that.

The biggest reason is the price. Since there were many flights that were competing in prices, it was easy for me to find the reasonable priced airline tickets. Besides, most airline companies allowed to reschedule or refund up to a certain date before departure. I used to buy an open ticket so that I could freely change my return date. Currently, most airplane tickets are non-refundable. An airplane ticket is not a cheap shopping. If you want to get refund, you need to pay extra to buy an insurance to cover that expense.

The second biggest reason is the airport security system. I never felt uncomfortable for the security check those days. Nowadays the security check got much stricter than before, which makes many people pissed off by just going through security check. It is not fun to be surrounded by many angry people in the airport.

And the last reason is about pets. Those days we didn’t sit with pets in cabin. Recently, some American airline companies allow pets to sit with the owner in cabin seat. I cannot imagine that, but it is true.

My daughter is allergic to pets’ hair. In worst cases, pets’ hair affects her throat and she has hard time to breath.

Today I talked with the airline company about my daughter’s pets’ hair allergy. The representative input a note in their system about that, but she says it does not guarantee that any pets won’t sit next to our seats. I guess it is up to our luck. I prayed the support from my family spirits.

It is a universal law that everything has been changing. I cannot do anything for the change. Maybe I am not the only one to feel that way. We like certain changes and dislike certain changes, but we cannot do anything for that. All we can do is to adjust ourselves for the change, or take an appropriate action for the change to protect us.    

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