5/17/2006

Sweet as Honeysuckles



It occurred to me all of a sudden
that I'd go to an aromatherapy salon near my place.

I'm not going to go into detail here about how dreamy the 2-hour experience there was, but just one thing:

I was admiring the honeysuckles I'd seen at the salon entrance while savoring after-massage tea and a cookie.*

(*mixed herbal tea & "macrobiotic" naturally sweetened oat & fruit cookie made with soy milk, if you must know)

Then I was leaving, and the masseuse came out with me - with scissors in her hand - and casually but carefully chopped some branches off for me!

How sweet it smelt... and she was.


[うれしいを つぎつぎと (Kirin)]

初めて訪れたのに、ハニーサックルまで頂いて。

右上: ひねくれて撮ってみました
が 本当はこんな感じです ->
BBC Gardening


5/06/2006

My Favorite Mistakes


4/21 Fri, 22:30

A friend of my father passed away on Thursday, one day after they played golf together.

J: "…So where is his funeral held at?"

T: "Sanda. Sanda, that's where he lives."

He's such a clumsy talker, plots far from intriguing, with no punch lines.

But "lives." The usage of the present tense instead of the past one? That mistake, which was obviously unintentional, made me feel so bitter and proud of his sincerity at the same time.



死について書くのは苦手ですが。

純: 「お葬式、どこであるの?」
隆: 「三田や。 三田に住んでるんや」とぽつり。 
切ない時制。