In the evening at 6 p.m., I attended the online lecture about natural birth. The speaker is a Japanese midwife. She is also a certified homeopath and loves homeopathy, so that she encourages the expectant mothers to have a natural birth with the support of homeopathy.

While I was listening to her lecture, I thought of my pregnancy days and labor. I wanted to have a natural birth with the support of a midwife like her, but I could not find the right one for me. I had my labor at the hospital. I brought my homeopathy kits and the guide books with me. When one of the nurses caught me taking homeopathy remedies, she overreacted. She quickly went back to the nurse station and reported them what she saw. Then, she came back to me with her supervisor. The supervisor nurse yelled at me to stop taking homeopathy remedies right away saying that the hospital didn’t allow to take any other mediations rather than their prescribed ones. She also warned me if I don’t listen to them, they had no option but kick me out from the hospital. I was in the midst of the labor. My labor had begun at the previous night with water break, and I was in the midst of suffering the contractions. I needed to put my homeopathy kits and guide books in my bag.

There were lots of regrets during my labor, but still, it is a past. I should focus on the happiness that I am provided right now. My husband and I are thankful that my daughter came to us safely.

Mine was already past, but I am wiling to support anybody who is willing to have a natural birth with the support of homeopathy in the future.

When I talked with my dad on the phone last night, he was asking when I would be able to visit him in Japan. He asks me this same question every time when we talk on the phone. On our last phone conversation at the New Year’s Eve of last year, without thinking, I answered my dad it might be this coming May. But to be honest, I am still reluctant to take a long hour international flight to Japan anytime soon.

That being said, I wanted to know the price and the condition about the trip back to Japan. I called the travel agency and asked about the airplane ticket price. The round trip for this October was $1,444 per adult, which was not bad at all. Last time when I called about the round-trip price in 2021, it was about $5,000 per adult. I could have reserved the ticket today, but I postponed. The travel agency’s agent told me that it would be still tough for the people who didn’t have the vaccine more than three times due to the PCR result within 72 hours before the departure and other mandatory procedures to report to the government. I guess I should wait until October, or possibly sometime in next year. I know that one of these days these mandatory processes will be terminated.

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In the early evening at 5 p.m., I attended the online Reiki gathering. Today’s gathering was for Americans and Mexicans. There were more than 50 attendees. The teacher seemed to be very happy that the Reiki philosophy has been taught and passed it down to a variety of age group in many different countries.

In my dream of this morning, my dad was visiting me. We were at a station to take Shinkansen (bullet train). My dad and I took the Shinkansen and traveled together. When we arrived at a certain station, my dad stood up from seat and got off the train. I quickly followed him. On the next second, he was already walking down the stairs to the ticket area. I tried to catch up with him and called him. Now he was running fast as if he was in his teens. He was healthy and fit. While he was running down the stairs, he talked to me telepathically that he would be okay. Then I woke up.

I didn’t worry about him. I had good feeling about him. But I thought maybe I should check on him, because I haven’t called him for more than 3 months. The last time I called him was the New Year’s Eve in America, which was a New Year’s morning in his time.    

In the evening around 7 p.m., I called my dad. He picked up the phone within the second ring. His voice sounded much slower than the last time, but still, he sounded happy. He was not mad at me for my not calling him often. We exchanged some cheerful words to each other and ended our short conversation.   

Tonight at 2 a.m., summer time started. Since most of the insurance related trainings and meetings are set to the California time, I need to set all my alarms one hour back until November. With the summer time start, allergy season has arrived. I started having all the symptom of allergic reaction such as dull headache, itchy eyes, and runny nose.    

In the early morning at 1 a.m., I attended the online Reiki gathering. There were 34 attendees. toward the end, the Reiki teacher shared about Japanese philosophy of 物の哀れ Mono-no-Aware. I remember he shared this philosophy before in this gathering. The teacher mentioned it to the host, but the host said it was already two years ago. I was surprised it had been already two years passed since then.  

The teacher repeated the same information, but it was a great reminder. It is like 桜. Cherry blossoms are beautiful but they don’t last long. They are vulnerable with any conditions of natural conditions such as strong winds and rains.     

物の哀れ is difficult to clearly explain even in Japanese. It means sympathy toward the tranced of beauty of things. To me, this term and philosophy is similar to that of 一期一会. It means everything is changing and thus, nothing stays the same. And that is why we have to cherish every moment. 諸行無常 is also similar that tells nothing stays the same. This philosophy really touches deeply my heart as I age every year. One of the quotes of Louise Hay goes “I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.” It’s a great one.

Most of my free time on the daytime, I worked on my homepage. Today I manually created the Japanese page and menu. I don’t have Business Plan which is the expensive subscription. If I had this plan, the process would have been much simpler and easier because I would be able to use Plugin and it would do all the works for me. since I don’t have the plan, I needed to do manually one by one. Luckily, I got a very nice and kind live-chat-engineer who walked me through step by step. I really appreciate his/her support tonight.

Then I took a 2-hour nap to prepare for the long night. I had two zoom meetings; one was from 10 p.m. and the other was from 1 a.m.

In the late night at 10 p.m., I attended the online homeopath gathering. everybody had an opportunity to introduce ourselves and share our personal experiences on homeopathy remedies. I am the 12^th student and I met 5 of my fellow students. It was a beneficial meeting.

It was my birthday. My family went to the local ice cream store to pick up the custom ordered birthday cake. I made this year’s birthday as one of the memorable ones. From today I started posting Podcast. Without the encouragements and supports from my friends, I would have not been able to take this step forward.

In the evening at 5 p.m., my family and I attended the community meeting presented by the internet provider. For the past one month, the construction company have been working hard every day, cutting, digging the asphalted road, installing the cable tubes, and patching the road up. Sometimes maybe they were late on their work schedule and the workers kept on working even until midnight. So, the company people invited the community people to explain what has been going on and their plan and schedule. The new internet service should be available from this August. I enjoyed meeting with my local friends and catching up with them. We all had a good evening at the meeting venue.

In the evening at 6 p.m., I had a zoom meeting with one of my palmistry group members for reading session exchange. I offered him Horoscope chart reading with Sabian symbols, and in return, he offered me some advice about my homepage. His advice was helpful. He encouraged me to start Podcast, which I was planning, but at the same time, I was feeling scared for publishing my voice message. By the end of our conversation, I was filled with courage and about to take the first step. I really appreciate for his encouragement and support.

In the early morning at 6:30 a.m., I made a phone call to the annuity insurance company. My first anniversary is coming up, and I can edit the strategy index during only the certain period. Their website recommends customers to call them in the early morning which should be their least busy hour. I expected to be connected to a live agent right away, but it didn’t go like that. I called the main number and listened to their recorded instruction on which number I should press, then the put me on-wait for more than 10 minutes. Then finally, I was connected to a live agent. So far so good. Unfortunately, though, the agent was not helpful at all. She repeated my request over and over again, put me on-hold every time she repeated my retest, the she would come back and said she does not know. By the time I hang up the phone, it was close to 8:20 a.m. I spent 2 hours on the phone, which was not helpful. I wonder other people are having the same experiences as I did. I should have done this communication via email or online chat, if they had, so that I could have done something simultaneously and didn’t waste my time.