Yes I did! ...So how did you know it's my "words of wisdom" that I secretly say to myself every time something important is coming, either fun or serious, like a big meeting: I breathe in and go, "Okay Junko, enjoy the show!" or "Showtime, lady!"
I know it's just ridiculous. But at least for me it works.
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
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。
My house. Going up the stairs,
I point at the wooden wall.
"Can you see a pattern here?
I grew up thinking it looks like a rabbit sitting up."この歳になっても
ウサギさんや、と一瞬立ち止まってしまうのは
まだ心が清い証拠かしら？
（ということにしとこう）
I had my breast lump removed on 3/6.
One of the exciting moments was when Dr. Kosaka let me see the lump freshly taken out of my breast while I was still lying on bed. I really regret that I didn't casually ask this penetrating-eyed gorgeous doctor if I could keep the 2-inch-long rubbery mass; it looked like a well-made prop for a SF movie or something, worth collecting maybe.
p.s. the lump turned out to be "good" benign tumor, i.e. neither a cancer nor a mass that is negative yet mushrooms out-of-handedly. But I'll perform a monthly breast self exam, and would seriously recommend women do so.
意外だったのが手術台のライト。（蓮の種を逆さにしたみたいなの と言ったらいいでしょうか）あのライトの表面が凹凸で、意外でした。 「平滑なライトの表面が仰向けの患者の姿を映しだし、局所麻酔の本人の目には、手術中の様子がありありと...」を想像しワクワクしていたのです。（変態？）
なのに、凹凸表面だとライブ映像とてモザイク以下、
「オークルが突如真っ赤に変わった」程度しか分かりませんでした。
...とこんな事言っていられるのも
結果がよかったからにほかならないなのですが
真面目な話、セルフチェックは大切だと思います。
