2026.5.7

It was fine and warm.

I bought lunch before getting on the train so that I arrived at the office the earliest.

After the Golden Week I got souvenirs from colleagues.

There were lots of paperworks and I overworked.

When I got home, there was a sad post card waiting. My first teacher of the primary school died in March. I only went to her primary school for 8 months or so, but she was one of my favorite teachers in my life and I have visited her at her house some times and have exchanged new years cards for many years. RIP.

2026.319

It was cloudy.

I had lunch with my colleague.

There was a rehearsal for the ceremony next week in the afternoon.

I was very busy and overworked until 9 PM.

On my way home I went grocery shopping.

My 202nd ebook campaign started.

There was a sad news. One of the Original Kimono de odekake club members died of cancer on March 16. I heard the news from someone I connected at the Kimono de odekake club luncheon last year. I did not know she has been struggling with cancer at all. When I invited her March event in February, she said she was ill, but I did not think of such serious situation.

We'd better what we want to do because we do not know when our life ends.

2015.10.16

It was rainy today.

I got a sad news today. My professor from university passed away the day before yesterday. When I knew it by email, it was already time of the wake and I could not attend. There will be a funeral tomorrow morning, but I will go to Kyoto tomorrow and I cannot attend it either.
He was a psychology teacher.
When I was a high school student, I wanted to be a counselor so that I took entrance examinations for psychology major, but it was in vain. So I majored in International Relations instead. But I still wanted to study psychology, so I took all the psychology related courses offered there and he taught every course.
After graduating from university, when I was a teacher of a junior high school, I was still thinking of studying, and he cared about me.
When I was in the USA, he called me.
When I published the book, he was very pleased.
He remembered the things about me which even I forgot.
He always encouraged me.
I feel bad that I cannot do as much as he expected to.

Thank you for everything.

Please rest in peace.

2015.8.17

It rained, sometimes very heavily like a storm, but other times the sun was shining.

The last day of my father has come. He has been in the hospital since June 10. He was alive this morning but they say his heart stopped at 11:01 am.
Unfortunately I was not able to be with him when he passed away.

We decided to do family funeral (家族葬:kazokuso), just with relatives.

I hope he will be happy with his wife again after about 13 years.

Thank you, Dad. I am honored to be your daughter. I will love you forever.