25 Dec, 2021, was dancer, choreographer and director of the performance art group “The School of Hard Knocks” Yoshiko Chuma’s birthday. People aired a video celebrating Yoshiko’s birthday and showing their thoughts on Christmas.
Our couple of healer/art/music friends, Frank & Michele was coming after a while. They said that from now on, sound vibration including so-called voice will be the “key” that leads all events to harmony. Also Michele had a dream suggesting this. Wonderful coincidence, more and more Orin and I are really enjoying making tones, sound, melody and music. At the same time Michele has been making “knit-bone” healing cream. One of the ingredients is “comfrey”, comfrey is known as knitbone. It has Alontin in it and helps to mend heal connective tissue and bones.
The end of 2019, after I broke my right wrist, this cream was so useful. The scars after the femur fracture surgery in February have also been cleaned up, and I am grateful to be able to use my wrist and hip. These two fractures of mine were due to a big fall on a frozen road and in the garden shortly after I moved, and I’m hoping for a cream to fix this sloppiness, well. The first thing to do is to learn how to walk on a frozen road.
She is also a member of the Musashino Consortium, and their exhibition this May also featured her remembrance corner. 彼女は武蔵野コンソーシアムのメンバーでもありました。この5月の武蔵美展に、彼女のコーナーが設けられました。その時のビデオです。https://youtu.be/Pp1uPqC_uiE
時空を超えて、彼女の魅力的なシリーズだった ”ポケットプロジェクト” を続けているのじゃないかな。ヒロミさん、どうもありがとう!!Beyond a time and space, She will be surely continue of her strong and charming series “Pocket project”, Thank you, Hiromi!
The other day, about one-third of the way to Greensboro in North Carolina, our car broke down unexpectedly! Finally, a good local repair shop helped us. After a while we got a call that the repair and inspection had been completed, then, we got on the train all the way and switched to the bus to reach the repair shop. There was a “Toys on the Square” shop at the corner of the road. It is as if this toy store is for adults who haven’t forgotten the hearts of children. Or an amusement park for grandpa & grandma. From the retro toys to the new toys, Orin was overwhelmed! The owner of this shop was also like a king loved by toys, and had a mysterious dignity.
Here the unique restaurant RODGER NEWBURGH, in there is “HIBINO day by day,” which serves a Temari-sized https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temari_(toy) rice ball lunchtime takeout every Monday, 11:30 am to 2:30 pm. https://www.instagram.com/hibino_daybyday/. Nature-oriented ingredients, you can see these cute rice balls are fascinating.『cooking is an art!』This is Chef Ms.Fish’s strong point & policy. Her inspiration and enough experience both come together to make these charming onigiri instantly. Japanese soul food is surely here.
In New Jersey, West Orange where our friend lives, said that wild Maitake mushrooms grow naturally near her house and she planned a Maitake mushroom tour. It was my first experience! we had a very good time.
Today, 7 October, we went to Woodstock, NY with our friend who was selected for a 22nd annual film festival sponsored by Woodstock Museum, Inc. I am very grateful that Woodstock has continued to exist in this way even after the hippie movement, the enthusiastic movement of young people in the United States in 1969.
In Aichi prefecture, my friend has a vegan shop in the scenic Obara district of Toyota City. Its name is “Komure Shokudo”. With this letter alone, it seems that hearty and delicious promises are smiling. It will be reopened later this year with the addition of vegan baked goods.
This is one of my very best friend’s email from France that I got recently(she sent this by 6 Sep). She wrote that she & her partner went flea market however without vaccine pasport they couldn’t entered so they climbed near mountain and could see the open space. In there, they found such energetic and great brass band. Hours and hours the band had been playing! Later my friends met them on the road(photo), surprisingly no band members seems being tired, then, they went up the stone steps so my friends followed them, OMG! they disappeared suddenly.. Moreover the band name was not mentioned on the guide poster.
Later she wrote me back and said that while the band playing my friends didn’t recognize any music/songs even though their long career of musician and professional composer.