The exhibition from Boris Lurie Art Foundation (← click) where Orin has been involved for a long time, was held at The Museum of Jewish Heritage (← click). Boris lost his childhood lover, mother and sisters in the Holocaust, however he and his father were selected by nazis to work in camps until the end of the war because they had good skills for work. Boris, then got free and moved to New York. Since then, his life was extremely hard and bitter, these harsh experiences that attacked him every day were too difficult to put into words.『As long as I can remember them, I will draw them out, express them! 』This determination pushed Boris towards his lifelong artistic career and activities.
The museum currently has three exhibitions, including “Nothing to do but to try” Boris Lorie, “Survivors: Faces of Life after the Holocaust by Martin Schoeller” and “The HOLOCAUST; what hate can do”. I couldn’t see them all without tears. Everything on this earth is connected, so how can it be so easy to slaughter? (Nuclear threats and/or biological weapons, of course)
On the way back, Orin and I were able to stop by the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (← click). You can see the history of the original inhabitants of this continent. Both the Boris Lurie exhibition and this exhibition are really heavy and make me think deeply.
This is the title of poetry book published by a friend (poet) in Tokyo on this fall. She sent it to me as a surprise, but apparently she accidentally sent it to my old address four years ago (Queens, Ridgewood). The address itself is correct, so there is a high chance that it will arrive, but if someone received it, of course I don’t live there and it would have been returned as the recipient unknown.
Fortunately, like a miracle, the landlord at the time found this collection of poems?? package?? that had been thrown away! It seems that no one was there because the house was being repaired, and the person who delivered it left it as it was. It could be a coincidence, or it could be a common occurrence. At the same time, my friend informed me that she was sorry that it did not arrive, and so she sent it to me again!
I’ve been feeling a lot of anxiety lately, so it was a very happy event.
彼女は素敵な素描も同封してくださった。She also enclosed nice drawings too.
From the top, going left to right: cherry blossoms, hawthorn, wild grapes, thoroughwort, toad-lily, spotted bellflower, fringed pink, burnet, and liverwort.
Fermented cabbage was actually traumatic to me. In early February 2021, which I will never forget, my heartfelt hand-made fermented cabbage failed! Reluctantly composted. I went out to the garden before it got dark, saying that I should throw away things during the daytime the next day. (very strange feeling “must do now! hurry!) Remove the snow and compost the smelly cabbage. And I flipped over. **Emergency transport and femoral head replacement surgery.
One year and nine months has left. Encouraged by the great success of brown rice lactic acid bacteria, I tried to make fermented cabbage again. Well, let’s increase mitochondria with a fun life and delicious ingredients.
Time flies since the rear-end collision the other day. The rear-end accident report at the police station has not been completed at all, and it is still waiting because it cannot be repaired without permission.
As for Honta, he was relaxing in our landlady’s garden as usual, and his body wrapped with the dead leaves all over him. Now all leaves flew away so that he shows his shining roof. Appears to be dozing off.
It’s like an old guard dog that I’ve lived with for a long time, a kind of lovable feeling I have now. We are so sorry, Honta got hurt. We occasionally fights over the idea that Orin won’t need a car when we move to New York. Well,,,
Lightly wash one cup of brown rice. Put the brown rice and half a liter of water in a container and leave it in the sun for a day. 2. The next day, add 1.5 liters of water and 15 grams of salt into “1”. Leave in a sunny place for a day. 3. Add 45 grams of sugar to “2” and wait 3-5 days for fermentation to complete. That’s it.
** Shake well once a day to stir, then open the lid and let air in.
When the liquid has decreased by about half, add the same amount of water used to soak the rice, add about 1% of salt and about 3% of sugar, and continue culturing in the same way. However, if it smells putrid, unfortunately it has been mixed with various bacteria, so say goodbye and start over. If things goes well, you can culture one after another based on the first lactic acid bacteria solution. (Sure, up to you)
There are many recipes and many ways to make it, but I chose this simple method. For water, I used filter water, pink salt, and organic sugarcane for sugar. Brown rice is ordinary rice that you can buy normally.
Just 7 days have passed since the preparations on October 22nd. Is it time to drink?
I have heard about the wonderful effects of malted rice and lactobacilli for a long time, and my friends have been making healthy foods using them with their own ideas. Miso and soy sauce, of course.
Over the past few years, I have heard a lot about the experiences of people who have had severe side effects after getting a corona vaccine, starting with a high fever. I think detox is finally becoming an urgent issue. Matsuba (pine tree leaf) tea, which has been loved since ancient times, is one of them.
Unexpectedly, I wanted to support Orin’s detox and intermittent fasting, so after a long time (!!) I decided to make brown rice lactic acid bacteria drink.
October 18th (Tuesday), was the day of Orin’s PET scan and MRI examination. The results of this day will determine the future treatment policy. He/We usually walk for 25 minutes, but this time, Orin drove our “Honta” to the bus stop for New York City. However, about an hour later, I received a phone call telling me that he had got rear-ended accident while turning left on the main street. (It’s too late, if he let me know earlier, I’ll have to report it to the police immediately) The reason for the delay in contacting me was that he had to be on time for the bus, and that he had to send a damage report to the insurance company first while on the bus.
To make a long story short, the other party were 3, a mother who was in a hurry to send her children to school. So Orin let them escape, deciding that if he called the police, he would miss the bus. Yes, surely, this mother did not submit a report to the police.
Anyway Orin has to be checked for whiplash, etc., so I waited for him to come home and asked him go to a nearby general hospital. He went to the ER late at night. No anomalies since then.
On the 19th, we went to the police station in Newburgh and handed over all the evidence and photographs for questioning. Our “Honta” (named like this) has a minimum insurance coverage, so any repair costs are not covered, and since the accident was originally a rear-end collision, we have no choice but to make a claim to the other party’s insurance. How many days will it take.
Orin is still a criticism of the car society. There are as many car deaths in a year as the total number of soldiers who died in the Vietnam War. Or the odds of dying from cancer are lower than car accidents. I don’t like to put statistics on paper. Whether by accident, war, natural death, or disease, the dignity of people and living things goes beyond the numbers/tricks of statistics to convince them.
But of course! It’s true that if I hadn’t had hip replacement surgery, I wouldn’t have had a reason to own a car.
