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June 30th was David Joly’s birthday, I don’t know how old he is. I sent a birthday message to him via FB with a phrase of “I miss you!” David quickly reacted and said “I miss you, too.” We met about 12 to 15 years ago in Kamakura/ He stayed at our then Kamakura house in Hase for three days. It was such a fond memory, as he and other guy from XX were young, smart and funny. They were so nice in nature.

I found a photo taken at Kosokuji!!
https://www.facebook.com/djoly7/posts/10157805065973303
He is talking about how to plant squash in soft sweet voice, though I cannot understand any words in French, except “plastic!” and Gabriella’s “Merci beaucoup.”
I don’t know why he wore this on his birthday, but maybe protect himself from bugs in the field and from Covid 19!

The funniest conversation I remember was that he said his Japanese was MINUS 10 to 20, when I said my English was not good (or poor).

Latest photo of David: July 17,2020

昔の写真がでてきました・・・2008年でした。

長谷寺です。

2021/July

2021年の写真、美しい小鳥たち　from FB　音楽ビデオを作るとき（無断で）使っている。

同じ日に５か国の友人と会った日(１)

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<2020/6/30のできごと>

なんと慌ただしく楽しく疲れる1日だったことか！

朝 🌹 Jo**からメール
午前 🌷 Co**先生とメールでお話<日本語で＞
昼　🌹 Gh*****先生とランチ
午後 🌹 Sa***とイタリアからの帰国便についてメールで話
夜 🌹David Joly に誕生日メッセージ、Squash談義

1日置いて、今度は南スダーンのAnt****から！

Covid-19 cases in South Sudan is alarming.

(2020.7.3) Covid-19 cases in South Sudan is alarming. People refuse to adhere to the rules laid down by the Ministry of Health. It stands at around 2007 confirmed positive cases, 38 deaths, 332 recovery, 1 in critical situation. 
The Government of Japan is building a bridge for us across the river Nile. We thank the kindness of the people and government of Japan towards us in South Sudan.

South Sudan speaker steps down

Makana resigns under pressure from fellow MPs for blocking efforts to fight corruption and mismanagement.Monday 09/12/2019

Anthony Lino Makana

Corruption is rampant in South Sudan

JUBA – South Sudan’s parliamentary speaker has resigned after lawmakers threatened to impeach him for blocking efforts to fight corruption and mismanagement, local media reported Monday.

Anthony Lino Makana was accused by fellow MPs of failing to present auditor-general and anti-corruption reports to parliament and blocking lawmakers from summing ministers for questioning. He was also accused of approving a loan of $400 million (361 million euros) from Afrexim Bank without bringing it first to the house as recommended by law, in a motion tabled by lawmakers who demanded he resign. “The reason for tendering my resignation is an act of deep and sincere respect to your leadership (of the ruling SPLM party) for you requested me to do so,” Makana said in comments carried by South Sudan Broadcasting Radio on Monday. Corruption is rampant in South Sudan, which achieved independence in 2011 and plunged into civil war two years later.


World Cannot Choose Between Economy and Saving Lives, Fauci Says

1日で５か国の友人と・・(2)　 a friend from Canada

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10日ぐらい前に「Skypeで話そう！」と相談して1週間後に実現。MontpelierのJohnと1時間ほど情報交換、おしゃべり。超楽しかった。2週間後にまた。

I felt fresh green air of Montpelier behind you.

English words I have learnt at the session were: “landscaper” and busser”(給仕助手）.

Before the session Marie waned to say hello to you and did practice once. I hope she could join next time. And our “talkative” Simon (he wants to show his knowledge to somebody, Akky says) also practiced, like “My name is Simon,” we should not force or say, but it would be fun to see it.  

  • Coronaの事前勉強1
  • Coronaの事前勉強２
  • 家で咲いたテッポウユリ（芳香）
YCUの薔薇 2020/5/25

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Twin Farms Event Venue Barnard, Vermont, United States | Venuelust
Spring in Vermont

The sun was warm but the wind was chill 　You know how it is with an April day 　When the sun is out and the wind is still 　You are one month on in the middle of  May. 　But if you so much as dare to speak, 　A cloud comes over the sunlit arch, 　A wind comes off a frozen peak, 　And you are two months back in the middle of March. (Robert Frost, cited by John)

Field Of Dandelion In Spring Time Vermont, USA Stock Photo ...
Scenic Vermont Photography- Spring at Emily's Covered Bridge in ...
Robert Frost

Out of the mud two strangers came And caught me splitting wood in the yard, And one of them put me off my aim By hailing cheerily “Hit them hard!” I knew pretty well why he dropped behind And let the other go on a way. I knew pretty well what he had in mind: He wanted to take my job for pay.

Good blocks of beech it was I split, As large around as the chopping block; And every piece I squarely hit Fell splinterless as a cloven rock. The blows that a life of self-control Spares to strike for the common good That day, giving a loose to my soul, I spent on the unimportant wood.

A bluebird comes tenderly up to alight And fronts the wind to unruffle a plume His song so pitched as not to excite A single flower as yet to bloom. It is snowing a flake: and he half knew Winter was only playing possum. Except in color he isn’t blue, But he wouldn’t advise a thing to blossom.

The water for which we may have to look In summertime with a witching wand, In every wheel rut’s now a brook, In every print of a hoof a pond. Be glad of water, but don’t forget The lurking frost in the earth beneath That will steal forth after the sun is set And show on the water its crystal teeth.

The time when most I loved my task These two must make me love it more By coming with what they came to ask. You’d think I never had felt before The weight of an axhead poised aloft, The grip on earth of outspread feet. The life of muscles rocking soft And smooth and moist in vernal heat.

Out of the woods two hulking tramps (From sleeping God knows where last night, But not long since in the lumber camps.) They thought all chopping was theirs of right. Men of the woods and lumberjacks, They judged me by their appropriate tool. Except as a fellow handled an ax, They had no way of knowing a fool.

Nothing on either side was said. They knew they had but to stay their stay And all their logic would fill my head: As that I had no right to play With what was another man’s work for gain. My right might be love but theirs was need. And where the two exist in twain Theirs was the better right — agreed.

But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight. Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For heaven and the future’s sakes.

Scenic View On Of The French Spring Countryside With Rever And ...
The road not taken 「歩む者のない道」
　　　　　　　　　　
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both　
And be one traveler, long I stood　
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;


Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay　
In leaves no step had trodden black.　
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,　
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.　

　　　　　　　　(Robert Frost, 1916) 		黄色い森の中で道が二つに分か
れていた　残念だが両方の道を
進むわけにはいかない　一人で
旅する私は、長い間そこにたた
ずみ一方の道の先を見透かそう
とした　その先は折れ、草むら
の中に消えている　
それから、もう一方の道を歩み
始めた　一見同じようだがこち
らの方がよさそうだ　なぜなら
こちらは草ぼうぼうで　誰かが
通るのを待っていたから　 本当
は二つとも同じようなものだっ
たけれど
あの朝、二つの道は同じように
見えた　枯葉の上には足跡一つ
見えなかった　あっちの道はま
たの機会にしよう　でも、道が
先へ先へとつながることを知る
私は　再び同じ道に戻ってくる
ことはないだろうと思っていた　

いま深いためいきとともに私は
これを告げる　ずっとずっと昔　
森の中で道が二つに分かれてい
た。そして私は…そして私は人
があまり通っていない道を選ん
だ　そのためにどんなに大きな
違いができたことか　
(ロバート・フロスト,1916)

「黄色に染まった森のなかで、道が二手に分かれていた」 日常の言葉でニューイングランドの農村や自然、人生を語り、20世紀アメリカの「国民詩人」として愛されるロバート・フロスト(1874―1963)。素朴で大らかな描写の下に、不気味な暗さをたたえるその詩から、36篇を精選。多様な「意味の音」を伝える原文とともに味わう。

ImageOfVermont – Photography displaying the beauty of Vermont

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A huge oak tree in probably Oxford shire

このともだちはいつもすてきなせいかつをしているひとでせかいじゅうのかんこうちひきょうをたづねるゆうがなせいかつをしている。せかいじゅうのめずらしいうつくしいしゃしんもすきだけどころなでせいかつがげきへんしいまはごじたくのおっくすふぉーどのふうけいがけいさいされていてそれもとてもすてきです。

　いいなあいぎりす、なんというしずけさとうつくしさ。

こちらはおっくすふぉーどだいがくだ！なつかしい。

2020/4/11

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暖かい日の間に冷たい雨の日曜日、その日が今日！ 珍しい人(Pyrrah and Tanya(?))が参加したから？？　寒かったのでいちご狩りは行きも帰りもチャーターバス、終了後は剣崎Walkを取りやめMore’sカプリチョーザで楽しいランチ。最後は無印でお買い物。。。Good!

それではランチへ！

More’s カプリチョーザにて
  • Radish Recipi

今年は順調に2回参加！

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突如発生した新型コロナウイルス感染の影響で、異例づくめの風景。でも、我らA家＋M家 and Sarah’s familyは‟気にしない”。マスクを積極的にしてる人は池袋にある塾に行ってたMariだけ。去年もその前もいつも一緒の3家族の楽しい集まり。Sarahはクリスマスプレゼントも一緒に持ってきた。

2月の誕生日会はSimon、Akemi, Sarah(1月）

終わりごろだったけどKenも参加。私立中学入学、高校・大学入学、教育、コロナ対策、学区外小学校入学、Sarahの新居、千代田区の住宅価格、新宿区の賃貸オフィス価格。大金を使ってParisへバレエを見に行った人(!)の話。その外にも、opera蝶々夫人婚礼の合唱のイタリア語発音。イタリア語開口eと閉口{e}の違い、日本語の「日」の読み方・・・など、面白かった！！

  • 走る！
  • 「止まれ！」
  • 走る！
  • ナント、これが日曜日の飯田橋駅b2a出口
  • サクラテラス入り口（閑散としている）
  • Aeonで買うバラ
  • 2012年のMari

2月のお誕生会、2019

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数カ月ぶりのGTT Outing　チラシでは電車とバスでの移動が多く見えて安心して参加!　ところがやっぱりというべきか、行程はきつかった！真鶴海岸の、火山岩だらけの歩道を歩いたときは「イチかバチか」危機一髪のところが1か所。自分の年齢・体力の限界をチェックしたような気分になった（大丈夫だった！）8：50湯河原駅集合から夕方まで16,000歩。陽光と緑、梅の香りを満喫したOutingだったが、帰宅したら「もう歩けない」。でも、まだ大丈夫だった！　次回はイチゴ狩り。また頑張って出かけ、体力維持の限界に挑戦しよう！（英語力も・・）

Taken by Iwamoto

真鶴半島「お林」と海岸

この日の草花

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  • ゼンマイ
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  • （カラムシ属？）

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