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.