午後になり雨が上がったので、鎌倉まで出かけることにしました。
鎌倉駅で降りて、これといった目的地なしに歩きました。
いきあたりばったりで、偶然、辿り着いたのがここ、
銭洗弁財天宇賀福神社（ぜにあらいべんざいてんうがふくじんじゃ）です。
湧き出る清水でお金を洗うと増える、と伝えられているそうです。
皆さん、ざるにお金を入れて洗っていました。私はお線香の煙にむせてしまいました。
途中、民家の庭の木に、小さなリスがいるのをみつけました。
リスちゃんとしばし見つめ合ってしまいました。
次に、人の流れに付いて辿り着いたのがここ。鎌倉大仏様です。
大仏さんと並んで記念撮影をしました。
今週はなにかと忙しい一週間でした。
水曜日と金曜日はそれぞれカイロプラクター（脊椎矯正）と心臓専門医の定期受診と前からわかっていたのでその心づもりは出来ていたのですが、日曜日（９／８）の夕刻、庭へ出る階段の敷物で足を取られて見事転倒、顔を擦りむいた一件がわざわいして、前述の２医への受診もいつもとは違ったものになりました。
カイロプラクターでは、いつも背中の低周波電波のマッサージは腹位で受けますが、そうすると顔面の傷が痛むので椅子にすわって受け、心臓専門医では用心のためと、破傷風の注射を打たれました。これが結構痛みます。
幸い、顔面の擦過傷ならびに打撲傷は良くなってはいますが、目下、赤紫、青に黄色と自然にはありえない多彩色を呈しています。
I have a dog named koko, who is 11yrs old. He is a yorkshire terrier. In the picture, as you can see, it looks like he’s sticking his tongue out. This is due to him losing a tooth. Also, if you notice, there’s a white object on his nose. It’s a piece of plastic that he stuck to his nose himself, by sniffing around. I took this pic cause i thought it was funny.
I am excited to share that I have made the decision to focus my efforts on revamping and upgrading my massage school to become a natural therapies school offering many diverse and interesting courses. My goal is to share the wonderful benefits of natural therapies to who ever is interested.
Therefore we are restructuring our programmes to offer short day, weekend courses as well as longer career path courses. We do this initially by breaking up and reorganizing the courses we have already. The public the have the wonderful opportunity to learn all sorts of massage from reflexology to aromatherapy to swedish to shiatsu without costing them a fortune as many school programmes today do. After this, if the students enjoy our classes they can choose to progress on to our intensive and information packed career courses (Certificate and Diploma) that we offer at self paced structure with payoff options.
Finally as this kicks off, our school team is excited to start preparing other natural therapies courses, such as chinese medicine, reiki, yoga etc expanding the school to a community exponentially to a world wide community for those wanting to learn and grow and make friends and ultimately change their lives for the best.
この散歩コースを好んで歩くようになりました。
山のように見えますが、残された小さな森です。
ぐるっとまわるとすぐに駅の商店街に戻ることが出来ます。
それが安心です！
この森にはシイの大木がたくさんあります。
深い緑が目にやさしい！
I often get ideas about what to go visit from co-workers. Like a couple of weekends back someone mentioned a botanical gardens north of D.C. They have a live butterfly exhibit that runs through the summertime. Aleria loves chasing butterflies so we thought we should take her there. It’s free to enter the and walk around, but you have to pay to the see the butterflies. The grounds were beautiful. We took a stroll and looked at all the plants and flowers before reaching the butterfly exhibit. Aleria wasn’t much interested in the butterflies. She just wanted to reach out for the flowers. Overall it was a pleasant experiences.
When I first read about Yukiyo’s experiences, I thought they sounded like a TV episode. I did my best to capture the drama and emotion of the story below. 幸代さん、ありがとう!
lift my head
wear a smile and enter
the next room
Those who work at the hospital must bear witness every day to battles of life and death. When we see patients recovering, we are overjoyed. Yet, there are also patients who take turns for the worse, and those who suddenly meet their end.
In my first year at the hospital, a patient under my care suddenly went critical. The CPR was having no effect, and I couldn’t bear to leave the room as I watched the life leave his body.
That was when another, older hospital worker scolded me suddenly. He said, “I get that you’re in shock, but there are other patients here! Is this why you’re here? To grieve and show sorrow? Go and do your job!”
I was taken aback. But, I was somehow able to yank the sorrow from my heart and shove it to the side. I finished my shift, and only then did I allow myself to face it once again.
Even now, there are times I find unbearable. Nevertheless, there are always others that depend on me. I think back to the day when I got that wise scolding, and I move on to the next patient’s bedside.
Yukiyo Fujisaki
English by Chay Schiller
昨日、遊行寺の境内で撮った写真です。とても古い木です。
形が怖そうに見えるので、昨日は長屋に載せる勇気がありませんでした。
しかし、これは自然の歴史を物語っている木です。今日は載せます。
迫ってきます！
ChanomiTalk 