Spring has come

28th of March was my birthday I got a birthday e-mail from my mom who lived in Japan. She said that usually Japan has had full of cherry blossoms every year on my birthday but this year only a few trees have bloomed. It looks as if they know what's going on in Japan after the big, big disaster.

We don't realise that our life is made of piece of miracles. To be born, to walk, to speak,to listen,to eat, to meet someone, everything we do in our ordinary days are actually the most precious things. I just thought so after watching numbers and numbers of news about the disaster.

A day before 28th, my house mates throw a lovely garden BBQ for my birthday. It was warm enough in the day time, birds were singing and all the trees in the garden seemed about to bloom. I saw a happiness in our small garden.

I appreciate from bottom of my hear to my great mum and to the fact that I live, create and have many lovely friends around. And I do wish all the sorrow and pain of people who have been suffered by the quake will away soon and we could create a better and more beautiful country.

私の誕生日である３月２８日、日本に住む母からお祝いのメールを受け取った。毎年私の誕生日には満開に近く咲く桜が今年はいくつかしか開花していない、まるで今の日本を語るかのようだと母は綴っていた。

私たちの生活が実はたくさんの小さな奇跡の集積であると気づくのは難しい。生まれおちて、歩き、話し、聞き、食べて　誰かに出逢う、私たちが当たり前の日常でしていることこそがかけがえのないものだと、止めどなく流れる震災のニュースを見て思った。

誕生日の前日、ハウスメイトたちが庭でバーベキューを催してくれた。庭で集うにはもう十分暖かく、鳥たちは歌い、庭の木々はもうすぐそこまで、といった様子のつぼみをつけていた。
小さな庭に幸せを見た。

生んでくれた素敵なお母さんと、今私が生きてなにかを創りたくさんの素敵な友達に囲まれていることに心から感謝を。そして今被災地でがんばっている人々の痛みや悲しみが一日も早くなくなることを、日本がこれからまたより良く美しい国になることを祈って。