The title Still Life seems to be an impression of the film gives but the intention to use it may be something else. I do not intend to write a spoiler. What I can write is that John May was incredibly sincere to something very important th…

One of those who were at Mariko gawa hanami is running an agricultural farm/firm in Mie. He said agriculture bears much and he can earn three times as much as those engaged in indifferent cultivation. According to him, rice growing cannot …

I wrote lines about hanami but every thing was deleted. The delete button ran mad. I wrote about iwamotoyama. Iwamotoya with pale pink patches is good to see; 外濠公園 was good to look up at. Cherry blossoms at their best are seen from som…

I went to a documentary film on Rijksmuseum's closure and refurbishment. What is striking is the length of time the closed the museum. In my impression, the Dutch people are practical and able to get things going but it was wrong, In the o…

The young Turing looked like 堺雅人.

I watched the film Imitation Game five times: on the outbound journey twice and on my way home three times. As I had to accommodate my sleep during the flights, especially on my way to US, I slept most of the time and I do not know if I co…

I went out to Getty Villa before I set out for the airport. By Metro bus services it would take about two hours, while by taxi only 40 minutes though it is a long journey enough. I passed by Santa Monica. There were Manu cars and probably …

I have not walked on the street. The conference was held in the hotel I am staying at. Yesterday I went out for an excursion to visit the Clark Library and I walked in the beautiful garde I breathed outdoors for the first time since I arri…

I got acquainted with a musicologist, Mozart opera specialist, Laurel. She was next to me on the excursion bus to UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. The library was superb with very nice people working there. And it was a nice tr…

One of the speakers in today^s sessions was Stella Tillyard. She is in the programme introduced as author and historian but she herself said she was a literature person. She talked about historical truth, showing some extracts from the Ari…

I am staying in Los Angeles. It took less than ten hours and there was not enough time on the plane. I saw The Theory of Everything and the Immitation Game but my sleep overlapped the films. These are two of the films that I wanted to watc…

As the saying goes, けみあればうれいなし Traveling light does not meam lots of fuss in preparation nor does the concept of the passport and the paper mean traveling light. I pack with my mind traveling all through my house. occasionally th…

B does not start packing till the very day comes. He says if he has the passport and the paper to be read at the conference, he can manage and any thing else is an extra. Some time ago we had to have the flight ticket but nowadays if we le…

The first English rose we bought was Heritage. It is more than seventeen years old. Some becomes a specialist or a professional florist after fifteen years with roses while we always stay an amateur. We did not think we could move it as it…

I will go to Los Angeles, leaving Narita on Wednesday. The arrival date from LA is a question. The plane will depart LA on 24:40 on 22nd, arriving in Japan at 5:00 on the following day. In my diary 23rd is marked. On the 24th I will go to …

There is no specific reason, but I simply forgot to write yesterday's diary. When I fail to write, I will stop writing at all, I expected, but it seems OK and I am back. Our garden will be properly planned and done. We decided on which 手…

The public libraries I went most often were 緑ヶ丘図書館, the British Library and where else? 緑ヶ丘図書館 provided a place to spend time when I was a 受験生. Near there there was a pancake shop ダイコンの花, which I hope is still there. T…

Some people say the victims want us to remember the earthquake, their sufferings and their mourning for the dead. Who can forget them? What we tend to forget is the feeling of humility. A mother who lost her teenage son said that her thoug…

Because of the delay of the flight, b could not reach home yesterday. There must have been better ways but I left it as he chose. He intended to stay at a 'capsule hotel' but found it was full. His next ambition was to spend the night on t…

Three chairs and a stool have arrived. In fact they came yesterday. There is nothing to do with the new things, but I have had back problems for a few days. Is this because of the work we had carrying the flower pots in the garden? For we …

Think about them; There is no need of exhibition, With apparent indifference Remember them well. Quoting a song, the writer was criticizing the ostensible lamentation of the world that miss the actors. Kabuki world is more profound than I …

After I mentioned my taste for marguerite type of flowers, I learned that B' father also liked the same type of flowers. It is possible he forced himself to grow out of the taste to have partiality for more refined flowers, being surprised…

The course Konita sensei and I did in 2013 seems to be a lot more important than I planned or thought at that time. I saw a video presented in the Doshisha website about their project courses. Theirs are of course different from the course…

We are entrepreneurs. When we listen to the project proposals and new ideas for new syllabi, they are full of ambitious schemes. Things are quite different from what it was like when we were young. Our teachers were not like this. They see…

I went to the dentist's to remove the calculus and clean the teeth. My dentist is reliable and he has done good jobs since I began consulting this dentist. His dental hygienists are also good: they are good at scaling and I rarely feel pai…

In 2013 I bought two plants of marguerite. They were prosperous, having many flowers. I love those flowers whose shape is like those flowers small children draw with crayons, e.g. daisy, osteospermum, etc. I remember well B's father seemed…

I ordered photopresso books today. The event took place on 3rd July 2014 and I have postponed the work until today. Some work weighs on the shoulders more as time goes by and I feel I should have done that earlier as I realize it is easier…

I drink lots and lots of tea. B teasingly quotes the remark from the Edo proclamation to warn against luxury: it is recommended to divorce wives who drink tea too often. Today I had a cup of coffee after breakfast, two cups of tea at ten, …