I purchased a biofeedback device from the American dealer / manufacturer on January 24^th. They told me it would ship in 8 to 10 weeks after the ordered date. I have been patiently waited for more than 8 weeks, but I didn’t receive any information about the shipping details. Today, I asked them and they replied back to me with the reasons why it was late. They have been waiting for one part from the originator’s factory in Hungary. They don’t know then the part will be delivered from their place. I accepted their reason and decided to patiently wait for another one month or so.  

We moved in this house in last July. We found several small issues in the house and submitted the maintenance requests. According to the property manager, their regular maintenance person is an old man who does not work regularly. It sounded that the person does his work as a side business / hobby, so that when he doesn’t feel like it, he won’t come to fix the issues. It was proved. Four months later after we submitted the repair requests, the person came. It was December 14^th. One of the issues was a screen of the window of the master bathroom. The person took the frame out from the window and told us he would come back. Then he took off. He never came back. I thought I should give up asking him to come back and fix it. We are renting this house and don’t want to create any uncomfortable relationship between the property manager, which we experienced it at the previous rent house. So, I gave up.

But an interesting thing happen. After I completely gave up and release the negative thought about the repair person, he came to our house and finally fixed the screen.

This event reminded me the importance of letting go. Now I am happy with the new screen attached to the bathroom window.

It was a cold day with harsh wind and rain. In Navajoland they are having snow. I did some yard work and tried to pull garden weeds. But they were still very tough. I started doing by hand, but eventually needed to grab a hand shovel and a hand rake. After even 30 minutes later, my hand shovel and hand rake got broken in to half at the metal part. That was how hard the ground was.

I went to the Japanese festival event in the neighbor big city. We have been there three times before so that we expected to have a great fun by experiencing the authentic Japanese cultural performances by the authentic Japanese people. However, this year the majority staff members and performers were Caucasians dressed up in a Japanese traditional outfit. It was a huge let-down. Please don’t get me wrong. I am fine with Americans performing Japanese cultural events. For the American who don’t know Japanese culture, it was a great event. however, for an authentic Japanese like me who misses the real Japanese cultural events, it was far from the authentic and that was why I felt sad about it. Maybe I expected it too much.

In the early afternoon the maintenance person came to our house and switched heater to swamp cooler. The process took much longer than we thought because of the two reasons. The first reason is that they were two people. One person was a trainer and the other person was a trainee that they were showing and teaching in details. The other reason was that the pump was out of order. They needed to go to the DIY store and exchanged the pump that was still under warranty. After they left, we enjoyed the cold air in the entire house. Summer is just around the corner.

In the morning my family and I planted the sprouted seeds into the soil in the seed nursery tray. The seeds that we purchased from native farmers are doing great.

My family and I did a yard work as a preparation of this year’s gardening. My daughter started taking care of seeds. She placed seeds between wetted kitchen paper in a Ziplock bag and added exhaled air in the bags. This time we purchased seeds from the local farmers so that the seeds are healthy and started germinating.

My daughter’s school added one course for a preparation of a high school. My daughter and I are enjoying the current moment and feel nervous when we think about her becoming an adult. The preparation of her being high schooler has made us a bit nervous, to tell you the truth. I am fully aware that we cannot stop time to proceed and time proceeds equally and fairly to everybody. All we can do is to simply accept the truth and enjoy the now moment as much as possible. For me it is a huge challenge to focus on now moment, rather than worrying about future.

I took my daughter to the orthodontist’s office. Last Friday night, the wire came off on both edge of her lower tooth. On the way back we stopped by at the mall and saw one artists’ store having a huge safe for closing. Then we stopped by another shopping area and saw their rival store already built newly. Since our city is a town for retired old people and the people don’t purchase much, we have witnessed many stores came and went. I feel there is some strange energy for this land for temporary.   

It was much warmer weather and temperature compared with yesterday.

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My daughter received a message from one of her old friends from the elementary school days. She noticed the new message but she didn’t open it right away because she kind of knew what the content would be. Most likely the friend wanted to know if my daughter will go to the same public high school or not. She left the message unopened for one night to sleep on it. On the next day, in the late afternoon, she finally opened the message. The content was what we thought. My daughter replied back to her that she would continue home schooling in high school, and her friend got disappointed. The friend asked my daughter if they can have a get tother sometime soon. Then, my daughter could not reply to it right away. Because they haven’t talked for many years, they don’t have anything in common. It means there will be nothing to talk about in their get together. I am sure that my daughter will meet the right people including good friends and the right boyfriend at her right timing. Since my daughter is a matured soul, she doesn’t worry or concern anything. She just enjoys now; the current moment, which is the reason I admire her and respect her. I feel honored and blessed to have her as my daughter. I am learning a lot from her.