During I was chatting with my Japanese friend, I noticed one term that was not familiar with me.

As a matter of fact, when I went back to Japan last year, I noticed many people used this term. I heard this term more frequently by younger people rather than older people. I didn’t hear this term from my parents. My parents don’t watch the variety shows. Some older people might love to watch the variety shows, but probably not as younger people.

Based on my analysis, I guess this term was coined newly and recently by somebody, and it was spread mainly via television, especially via “variety shows”.

The term is “hobo-hobo.”

Hobo-hobo is a coined term. Based on my rough research, it started appearing in somebody’s Internet blog on the in 1999. I never heard of this term when I was living in Japan at that time, so it was not a huge hit. Sanseido, a Japanese publishing company publishing dictionaries and textbook, picked hobo-hobo as Best Dictionary New Word of the year 2016. Probably it was around this time when television commentators and talents started using this term.

When I mentioned it to my friend, she didn’t notice it was a coined term. It was obvious to me because I don’t live in Japan. I thought it interesting.

I am fascinated with language. That is why I majored in linguistics in university and graduate school. My theme of my graduate paper was about slang. I picked the novel The Catcher in the Rye written by J. D. Salinger. In my paper, I analyzed the terms that the main character Holden used depending on the situation and the person whom he was speaking to. My conclusion was we intuitively choose the best term depending on the situation and to the listeners.

Language is a living creature. The term itself is neutral. It depends on the user on how he/she uses the term to make it good or bad. We had better to be careful on each term when we speak.

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In the past several months, our big outside trash can fall down, and the trash was scattered around the trash can in the morning. When I pick them up by hand one by one, I’ve noticed each trash was kind of eaten.

I suspected the strong wind to make the trash can fall down, and then later in the middle of night, wild animals came by and ate them.

My husband thought it was wild animals to fall over the can on purpose in order to eat the leftover food from garbage.

Last night when he was outside enjoying star gazing, around 11 pm, he saw a pack of wild animals walking down the street. Our area does not have any bright street lights, so that only trained persons can see things in the darkness. Maybe he had certain training to see things in the darkness during his military days.

He saw the pack carefully. He found out they were the pack of javelina. Their body was well blended in the darkness, so that he could only see their dull shining eyes from time to time. The pack of javelina was traveling one house to another. After the dad javelina (the biggest one) tipped over the trash can and the trash was scatter on the ground, the other family members ate the leftover food from the trash.

When I heard this story from my husband, I felt sad and sorry for javelina. They are supposed to be wild animals. They are supposed to find food in the nature. Maybe they have lived on this area for generations. All of a sudden, humans came and built houses. Now these poor javelina have to live off the leftover food from humans’ trash.

Luckily for them though, here in Arizona, they are protected by state law so that humans are not allowed to capture, injure or unlawfully kill them.

Javelina can be dangerous. I have heard some news of javelina’s attacking humans. Soon the animal control personnel will capture and release them in the wilderness away from residence area. In Texas, javelina are classified as a game animal and may be legally harvested with a hunting license, during hunting season.

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That reminded me of my younger days when I was working for the architecture firm. I used to attend the disafforestation of the forest to make open land. We often witnessed wild animals, such as a pack of deer and raccoon dog, confused to have lost their habitat area. I always talked to them and apologized them for taking their homes.

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In several days later I had an upcoming appointment of get together with somebody. Right after we decided the details such as date, time, and place for our get together, I had some dull feeling in my tummy area.

It was obvious that my body reaction was showing my reluctance of this get together. I wanted to cancel this right away, but I could not. I didn’t want to offend this person. As the day came closer, my dull feeling in the tummy area got stronger. I know I should ask the person to cancel this get together, but I didn’t know how I can explain the reason without hurting the person’s feeling.

I asked some of my trustworthy friends for advice about the reason of cancellation. Interestingly, their answers were all the same. They suggested me to just mention casually as “something important came up” with the polite apology for the last minute notice of cancellation.

So, before I sent an email to the person, I prayed that the person would not get offended or take it personal and simply accept my request of cancellation. Then, off went my email.

Regardless of my extra concern, the person replied back right away, accepted my cancellation request. I appreciate to the person for kind understanding.

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Nowadays for some reasons, I hesitate to go outside to see somebody. I just don’t feel like it. It might be the influence of my progress Sun. I am currently going through Taurus. I am interested in only myself, rather than in others. I love spending alone time on studying online classes and reading books.

Deep inside, I don’t worry about it very much. I know I am originally a people person. I am outgoing. I love meeting people and communicating with people. Eventually I will get back to my original state and enjoy interacting with other humans. Until then, I will enjoy spending my alone time.

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I just finished reading the book “Sara, Book 3: A Talking Owl Is Worth a Thousand Words!” written by Esther and Jerry Hicks. This book is the third version of their book “Sara, Book 1: Sara Learns the Secret about the ‘Law of Attraction”. I love their Sara series novels.

This third book gave me lots of happy chills while reading. I loved the part when Sara, Seth, and Annette shared the divine moment about the recognition of well-being and our eternal existence. While reading, I too was filled with happy tears in my eyes.

I could understand on how Sara felt for inviting a new friend to her comfortable circle. We feel comfortable in staying at the same old conditions. We feel uneasy in the situations where any new conditions coming in and destroy the old condition. However, since everything is being evolving, in order to allow everything to evolve, we need to let go of the old condition and accept the new thing from time to time. Once we accept the change, we notice the change is way greater than we have thought.

I love the ending part of this book. I too often share time together with my family and friends in my dream. That is perfectly normal to me to live in the dual world; in the physical world and the ethereal world.

Last year, I had a similar experience of Sara, Seth, and Annett. One night, I shared a great time with my friend in my dream. On the next morning, we had an appointment to go for a hiking. While hiking, she mentioned to me about her dream of previous night. Interestingly it was similar to my dream. We were happy to know that the experience in our dream was not just a dream, but really happened in our dream world.    

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I went to the store to pick up my merchant item. The store clerk at the cashier counter was a woman who is around my age. She was polite and kind. We started with the normal conversation. Before the customer sign the acceptance of the item, the customer needs to open the package and check the item for any damage, the ordered size and color. And so, in order to open the package, she passed me a pair of scissors.

Sounds like, so far so good, right?

To my surprise, however, she passed me a pair of scissors with the sharp side directed to me. My parents and teachers had taught me the proper way of passing a pair of scissors to somebody was to hold the sharp edge on my side and the handle facing to the person, for safety reasons.

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All of a sudden, I realized my progress in my feeling. I was not offended by the shop clerk at all. I am just observing the event in my normal calm mental state.

When the similar thing happened to me years before, I would get offended by the shop clerk. For several years after I moved to America, I had a bad habit on comparing everything between Japanese and Americans.

I am not the old me anymore. I have evolved.

I have come to fully understand that I should respect others, instead of wanting them to follow my ways and my morals. It is not the matter of good or bad, rather, it is the matter on how I can stay being happy, no matter what. 

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While I was chatting with my friend, I was in the state of channeling. I was amazed with the wisdom coming through my mouth. The wisdom did not belong to physical me. The wisdom originally belonged to her spirits and angels, and it was delivered through me.

Why I know that? Because I never thought of the wisdom on physical leveled me. While I was conveying the message, I got goosebumps and felt divine. I thought to myself “hey, it is indeed a good idea.”

The wisdom was like this.

When you face some issues, especially regarding the family financial issues, the first thing you should do is to make time and sit down with your family.

Now, let’s talk about on how to sit down.

When you want to create a peaceful environment, you should avoid sitting in a chair individually, surrounding by a table. Because it will enhance the emotion of separation. Each family member feels like fighting individually against their enemy toward different goals.

Instead, you should sit down on the ground in a circle without any obstacles between other family members. It will be even better to sit down closely to one another so that each person’s knee touches to the next person’s knee. It will build the atmosphere of unity and acceptance. In this case, each family member feels like making efforts with their allies toward the same one goal.

The next step is to enjoy brainstorming in this friendly and unified environment. You will be amazed with the progressed results.

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That makes sense. I thought of the results gained with my family.

My family and I devoted our previous weekends in remodeling the unused items into something useful items. We always started with our casual conversation.

I offered a topic like, let’s remake these water pipes to something useful. As a response, somebody said “what about hanging station?” Then the other person responded “that is a good idea. How about putting this pipe here, and that pipe there…?” The other person built another idea on top of that. And so on, the idea popped up in our minds and we shared them. In that way, we enjoyed our brainstorming of bunch of ideas.

By the end of the day, we could create our own unique hanging station. I am sure I would not be able to do this alone. But with the help of my husband and daughter, we were able to create even better product than doing alone.  

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Some of you might remember of my neighbor who just moved out. Although after they moved out, on some days of this week, I still have seen the guy’s car parked in front of their house. He arrived in the morning and left in the night. His car never parked all night long, so I am pretty sure he moved out. Maybe he came back to the house to clean it, or for some other reasons. I honestly don’t know. I am annoyed by the fact I still see this guy.

Yesterday in the evening when I was talking a walk with my husband, we saw the guy’s car driving toward us. We were at the right side of the street and his car was driving coming closer to us at the other side of the street.

When we passed each other, he drove the car very close to us, actually right next to my husband’s body, as if he was intended to run over us by the car.

The street is wide enough for two cars passing by with extra room left. We had no idea what on earth he decided to turn to the steering wheel very close to us.

It happened so quickly. His car already had gone far away from us.

My husband and I look at each other, totally confused.

I was mad at this crazy guy at the same time.

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In the bed at night, I had been disturbed by his action and could not fall asleep for a while.

In the dream, my family spirits showed up. They told me the guy was mentally sick. At the moment when he was almost running over us, he was in high due to some drugs or meds so that he was hallucinating. He misinterpreted me with somebody whom he knew. He just wanted to come close to me and chat with me. When he came closer to me, he noticed I was not the person he thought. He felt embarrassed about his misinterpretation and took off without apologizing to us for his peculiar behavior.

I thanked to my family spirits for the information. I told them I could forgive his behavior. I also told them I still don’t want to see him anymore.

My family spirits grinned to me saying “you know you can manifest on your own, right?” I nodded. I will work on that.

From my experiences, once I completely let it go, meaning let Universe take care of, then, the manifestation of my desired result will happen in a natural way. Thus, I am still in the process of manifestation of this case.

My pure wish is like this.

I want to have a peaceful and safe neighborhood. I am nice and kind. Therefore, I deserve to be surrounded by only nice and kind neighbors.

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I usually don’t check my Facebook account but today I needed to open it to check the upcoming event in the local community. I happened to see the number of my Facebook friends reduced. I was curious who un-friended me.

When I went to my friends’ page, I found out the sad fact. It was my local friend who un-friended me.

At first, I was angry at her. We never argued or fought. We had a get together on last November and shared a great time together. I couldn’t think of any reasons.

Then, my anger changed into sadness. She still had a whole bunch of local friends in her Facebook page. It seems that she un-friended only me for some reasons.

I kept on thinking about her and the reason. I was too scared to call her and ask her the reason.

So, I calmed myself and took some deep breaths.

First, nothing happened. I was still in the mixture feeling of mad and sad toward her.

I asked my family spirits for support so that I could come back to my inner peace.

All of a sudden, all the good memories with her washed over me. It was as if somebody opened the window and the ocean breeze gushed into the room.

I remember we had shared great time together. We enjoyed our great conversation. We laughed together. We cried together. We shared our inspirations.

After remembering all the good memories with her, I had nothing but appreciation toward her. We met at the right timing and shared our time together. Now it is time for her to move on to her next stage.

On our last conversation in last November, we shared our recent life. I told her everything was going just fine with me and my family.

On the other hand, she was in the middle of life changing events.

She just broke up with her romance partner. She could not afford to pay for the house mortgage anymore and the bank decided to buy her off as a foreclosure condition. Her business did not go well. She would move to her friend’s house in other state after the foreclosure procedure was done.

Here we are, five months later. She already moved to other state and her house was on the market. The house is in the pending status, meaning somebody is already in the purchasing process.

The fact of her unfriended me does not bother me anymore. I embrace nothing but appreciation to her. I have sent lots of hugs and love to her. Since she is very spiritual person, I am sure she has sensed my love energy.   

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After I was fully back to my true self, I felt like I heard the voice from Solomon (from the Sara novel).

He said to me in his calm voice; All is well.

And I agreed. Yes indeed, all is well.

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Today I went to my annual diabetes eye checkup. The doctor said there was no signs of damages due to diabetes. I am happy to know that.

Everything was peaceful today.

My spring sinus allergy infection has been calming down. In return, I am having rewards from the nature. We have lots of mint, sage, dandelions in our back yard and lots of rose flowers blooming in our front yard. It means our short spring has gone. Our long and tough summer has arrived at this land.

The weather report of this coming week shows that we will have hot days of 90F (32C) without any rains.

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I have been doing muscular workout since March 28th. One Japanese trainer offers a 20-days muscular workout program for free of charge. He sends a newsletter email every day at 7 am of Japanese time (which is my 3 pm) with the training instruction of the day.

Each workout is for about 10 minutes. We can arrange the workout program as we want depending on our body condition. I do the 10-minute workout twice a day; in the morning and evening.

Today is my ninth day. I have been getting sore muscle everywhere in my body, especially in my thigh.

I feel good about my muscle getting tighter and harder. I don’t see any change in my weight so far, but I do see the progress in my thigh.

The trainer mentioned to set our goal step by step. So, my first goal is to continue doing this training for 21 days. The second goal is for 3 month. Then, for 1 year. My final goal is to do muscular workout every day for the rest of my life.  

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