Both happy and sad things happen in the novels of our lives, but they are all located in the pages of the past. When we turn a new page, new scenery opens up there.
What we are touching with our fingers is "now". That feeling of warm body temperature is what living is all about.
Well, let's step through the arch of Winter and walk out to Spring.
"Look, it's beautiful"
You said simply, leading me by the hand
Shoulder to shoulder
As we hold hands
We look at each other
There's still more to explore
Crossing paths is the future
-words from Gen Hoshino “WHY-Traces of Light-”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-Ec_n81iyc#dialog
goodbye, other classmates
goodbye, the maths teacher
we go up on the hill
through the holes of fences
beyond the floating bridges
god only knows where we go
walkin' on the rail, drinkin' ginger ale
like an adventure tale send by air-mail
yesterday's rain runnin' down like a train
washing off our pain, so vivid now again
what a nice day for a picnic
what a nice day to be happy
hey, don't you know that?
what a nice day for a picnic
what a nice day to be happy like a honeybee!!
-words by Kenji Ozawa a.k.a The Flipper's Guitar
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i3UHeXXxdJ4
Snow changes the usual landscape. Everything is white and flat, visibility seems to going continue limitless straight far away. So I feel like I can walk to distant towns and countries where my friends ( Yes, It's about you!) are living :-)) Warm regards :-D
やっぱり、雪が好き。
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh0wleYYj4w
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-Mark Twain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqB8Dm65X18
Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
-Emily Bronte / Albert Camus
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lwsQWbUOg_w
If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater... suggest that he wear a tail.
-Fran Lebowitz
寒い冬の日、部屋のなかは暖かくて心地いい。 でも君は、なんだか退屈そうだね。
さぁ、マイ・バディ。 外へと繰り出そう。
君はご機嫌で自然のなかを自由気ままに歩き回る。 やがて、お気に入りの枝を咥えてきては、 僕とそれを引っ張りっこして遊びたがるんだ。
気がつくと、君はいつのまにか土埃で体を汚し、 尻尾やお腹に草の実や種をたくさんくっつけている。 そして、そのまま丘や野原をいくつも超えて、 遠い町へそれらを連れてゆく気のいい運び屋となる。
それでいいのさ。 君は、イヌだもの。 ニンゲンの子どもでもなければ、 ましてや、生きているぬいぐるみなんかじゃない。 そんなありのままの君の姿と瞳の輝きが、 僕はいつだって、こんなにも愛おしいんだ。
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWUC2-ypnDQ
A place where the sky and sea overlap...
ぼくのなかのせかい あなたのせかい あのせかいと このせかい
かさなりあったところに たったひとつのものが あるんだ
いのりのせて とどけてくれないか とおいばしょも つながっているよ
( 星野源『 ばらばら 』『 Family Song 』より )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlSLRCk5zcA
忘るまじ我らの夏を
ときは 葉月
いまここに 僕らの夏があり
かつてそこに 誰かの夏があった
互いは 袖すり合うことさえなかった他者
だからとて そこでおきた現象の明暗に
それぞれが 無関係かといえばそうでなく
因果は形を変えながらも 問いかけることを止めず
いつまでも乾かない瘡蓋が また疼くみたいに
ここでも そこでも
かぼそく 時に残酷な唄声を震わせつづける
あまりにも眩しすぎる世界では
それが決して見失ってはいけないことであっても
うっかり瞳を閉じさせられてしまうから
仄かな灯りだけを胸に点し
眼を凝らしながら僕は
たかい空に ふたたび ちいさく祈りたいのだ
The air of the sky above has grown somber,
the scenery seems warped as it flows by,
the restless gaze roams the sky…
What is it trying to grasp in the void?
What am I trying to pick up with the little machine
I carefully carry around?
Here too, like it or not, lives the projected self.
The habit or peering out from inside a shadow
hasn't got better,
the mud on a pair of shoes settles into the feelings
and takes charge,
and it seems the clouds are beginning to be torn
apart by radiance…
the usual existence, and the usual morning.
-words from Shinzo Shimao “Monsoon”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5VSpQDSiq3g
さくら さくら
今年もこの町に さくらが咲いた
いつも見慣れている散歩道いっぱいに
若やかで どこか懐かしくもあるような
しあわせの色が ぱあっと広がった
高く澄みわたる 青空の下で
花がわらってる 犬もわらってる
光のどけし ああ 春’ing
The cherry blossoms in the famous tourist spots are wonderful and certainly worth seeing.
However, what moves my heart most is the cherry blossoms that bloom on the usual walking paths. It beautifully colors our familiar place and uplifts the feelings of the people who live there.
"Hello! I'm glad to see you again!!"
I greet the flowers that way and sincerely thankful for the spring reunion. Our smiles are in sync and that happy time lasts for about 1 week :-))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISYSCEYcD8o
誰とも無い 誰かと 何処とも無い 何処かへ すれ違ったり 並んだり 追い越したりとか しながら せつなの友よ 我ら 此のおなじ時 ともに往く
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnlMN1-F3aA
Ode to life with my dogs, and memories of our Green Road that I walked with them.
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