My daughter in Perth in Australia sent me a message that she had to refuge from home just now because of brushfire spread by the strong cyclone. It was around 3:30 pm.It's announced it's so dangerous to stay there. Big smoke was approachin…

Two hours later I've got a message from her that she and two dogs are safe in her boy friend's mother's house.It takes forty minutes' southern drive from her house. I'm a bit relieved to hear her safe refuge.While the bushfire is said to b…

I went to the dentist's for the regular dental check yesterday. I make it a rule to go there twice a year.I was worried about my tuber calcaneus in my mouth which I happened to know on the tv program' tameshite gatten '.It was about the di…

Dr.Hinohara is well known Japanese long life active doctor at the Seiroka hospital.He's got 101 years old last October.He is not only longevity but very special and honorable person.I like his words,I thought my life from now was given and…

As I usually think from the incidents recently, it gets more and more insecure in the neighborhood as well as the whole society around us.Just yesterday a detective came to my house and asked some details recently including my family membe…

I learned that things are shifting from manufacture to mechanical automatic technology everywhere from home to society around the world.We can't live without technology or IT controlled mechanism.I owe a lot of my life time on advanced tec…

I feel bad from the news that in Frolida they hunted pythons which increased too many to make decrease the population of other small animals.The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced Saturday that 68 Burmese pythons w…

There are great number of wise words in the book of "Welden".I can only quote some parts of them now from the Japanese version.I'm sorry if I take it wrong but I will also keep learning the important essence of life.1. Get intelligence, wh…

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."He spent two years, two m…

If a crazy man conducted a crime, murder or harm innocent people, he would be arrested and punished by the justice.But the crazy were the dictator, he would make more confused and mislead the people miserable and the worst of all.Where is …

Simplify, simplify. Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes, five; and reduce other things in proportion.

Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me. Where I lived was as far off as many a region viewed nightly by astronomers.

I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere. Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength. [Life in the woods]

It's reported that the first south storm in spring comes in our area much earlier than usual.I wonder it's not the warm wind but very cold storm sometimes with snow and rain.I don't feel like it the first spring storm yet.It's saying becau…

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.It's a quote from the book which was published about 150 years ago.The title is ' The life in the Woods ' written by …

It's reported in the Worldwide survey of the most expensive cities to live best 10 from every two years.It's amazing that Japan's two big cities are the first and the second expensive costly to live in the world in spite of being under ser…

I've finished reading the books ' The calves of joy '. The two volumes of the hard covered book which were newly published last November.The author is Arata Tendo, who got Naoki literature prize by 'The man with condolence'.His another boo…

Even though it's the beginning of spring on the calendarStill cold, so it seems like only the name for the expectation....(The early spring)It's very familiar phrase for the early spring.It's an old lyrics which is hard to be understood by…

It was a very mild day at the last of winter. My son and his girl friend had failed to buy crab for the last two weeks. Two weeks ago, it was blizzard heavily in the ocean and no fishing. The next weekend the market was closed. So they wer…

These photos are taken of different kinds of animals and other kinds of creatures except humans. But this title shows that those seem more human like than ours. It means that we tend to ignore what is ' Humanity ' in our life. As being bus…