Your Word is a Lamp for My Feet and a Light to My Path.

Teruko Yamakawa, the translator of "Foal and the Angels" on our left

Fr.Callistus Sweeney, OFM of Franciscan Chapel Center in the center

Rose who's baptismal name is Raphaela on our right :)

Your word is a lamp for my feet and a light to my path.  Psalm 119:105

We are given a beautiful promise and an eternal truth.. that God's Word

is a gleaming lamp for our feet, which will guide us through the darkness

and it is a shining light to brighten the pathway we take.

To those I look up to, with many thanks for always kind and considerate to me...

Rose 

Combining American and Italian Style

The restaurant says they offer Napoli Pizza, but for me, it's like combining American and Italian style!  One lunch time.  I'm showing you one of the nice restaurants around my living place.

Tada--!  My pizza at lunch time😍  Hey! Who can resist this temptation?  Oh, I Do love pizza❤︎

I enjoy Napoli Pizza around my office, and this restaurant in my neighborhood reminds me of American Pizza. It is like a pan pizza, also, remaining a thin Napoli taste. 

Cheers to everyone in the world from Tokyo!  Stay safe, and if you go out like me, don't forget wearing a mask. Take care of yourself and don't catch coronavirus!                      See you, Rose xx

Oh, I missed it! I should've joined this wonderful picnic!

That looks like a fun moment!  One picture was sent to me from my brother while I was lying on the bed after showering. I was sleeping because I got tired from cleaning up my room. 

Pizza is ready to eat. My brother is going to open a sparkling wine. What a lovely nature they are in! I was invited to their lunch this morning, but I've decided not to join. I should do my laundry today. However, I didn't feel like being active. Now I wish I could have this wonderful lunch with my brother & his partner!

I do love pizza! And buying plastic cups with crushed ice is a marvelous idea to drink a freshly cooled sparkling wine on a picnic!

My family hasn't even once gone to the restaurant since the end of March. Eating outside is their good way to protect themselves and others from coronavirus. On the other hand, I'm dining out almost every day these days...😓

I don't like being stuck in the room all day. I need to step outside and get some fresh air. Going to McDonald's near my apartment for a cup of coffee is becoming my habit to clear my head during the corona outbreak.  

Has the second wave hit already!?  Well, tomorrow will be every other day of the pandemic. Oops! I have to go on a diet!

You are beautiful, and very kindhearted.

In Japan, hydrangeas start blooming from June to July. You can see them here and there during the rainy season.

There are also hydrangeas diagonally across from my apartment to the right. I just got back from taking a walk, but again, I got out right away. I should take a picture of these colorful hydrangeas now because it looks gorgeous.

The flower language for hydrangeas seems to vary with color.   It seems like....

Light blue, blue and bluish purple hydrangeas express cold, heartlessness, proud, enduring love, and "You are beautiful, but very cold".

Pink and red hydrangeas are symbols of energetic women and intense passion.

In regard to that, I have an objection✋

"Enduring love" doesn't coexist with "cold" nor "heartlessness".  Rather, it coexist with "intense passion". 

Though enduring love might not be always intense, it is strong and steady. In a real meaning, enduring love is energetic. 

So light blue, blue and bluish purple hydrangeas, I say to you...

"You are beautiful, and very kindhearted." 

Hydrangeas endure the rain. They comfort us by showing their beauty when we are tired of the rain and the clouds. Every color is fine. 

On a windy cloudy day, I came across this flower at the shopping district of my city. I'm not sure what kind of flower it is. Pretty impressive...☆  If you know about this flower, please let me know😘 

A pink moment from the window of my apartment

The sky takes on a soft, orangish pink glow at dusk.   "Pink Moment"

When I called it a day at my apartment, I saw the sky getting pink. Getting up from my chair, I looked up the sky out of the window.

COVID-19 is still going on. Working from home got really normal. When needed to work at the office, we apply for the day by Thursday morning in the previous week. An attendance rate became 50% from 30% in June. Since it's not convenient to apply for each day I go to our office, I applied for every Tuesday & Friday in a week. So, I've just started a new rhythm of my life.

I should think about what I can do for our company, and how I can make a social contribution in this situation. 

If I'm not staying at home, it will increase the risk of infection. Still, I should go outside. That is the reason I decided to apply for the regular 2 days in a week. 

When I work from home, on a break, I go out wearing a mask. Sometimes for lunch, other times to go shopping, and just taking a walk still other times.

Isn't it the first time to know my city so realistically in spite that I have been living here for long years? I think it's a quite nice city!

Also, I tided up my room in this self-restraint period. If I had kept working hard at the office, it wouldn't have been realized. I will continue to simplify my life by decluttering unnecessary things.

I'm lost and don't know what I'm living for.  Now I should do what I should do. 

  

Pure Michigan, I leave my feelings in you.

Dear Michigan, it has been my dream to live in your land, but it seems difficult.

I will entrust you with my pride and joy. Please know, I wanted a life together with my loved one, from the bottom of my heart. I wanted to fulfill my role in Michigan, and after I passed away   －　

I wanted to sleep in the same cemetery as my loved one. 

This is the picture Collie sent me. It is moving that leaves are getting greener now in Michigan. I feel the clean air in the forest. I wish I could walk this pass right now. I am crying... 

Dear Michigan, I leave it in your great and gentle hands.   Pure Michigan, I will never forget you.

Happiness to all, Rose

The most delicious scorn in my life was found in the neighborhood.

I work in a metropolitan area, and when I see my friend, I always hang out in the center of Tokyo like Ginza, Roppongi, or Omotesando etc. So, it was a pleasant surprise to have found such a delicious scorn at the restaurant in my neighborhood.

Even if I don't go out on the train, I can have such a wonderful scorn. The best, in my life!

"Kitchen neco" is a house opening a beautiful restaurant on the first floor. I passed by the house attractively decorated with various flowers tended with great care when I went for a walk during stay-at-home order. Since then, I have been going there often to get my takeaway lunch.

The young couple offer daily scorns, too. I like plain scorn best. It is delicious as it is because it makes the most of the original taste of simple ingredients. Obviously good quality butter, and flower. Milky gentle flavor and refined butter taste. A little crispy on the outside, soft on the inside. How naturally good it is...! Oh, I love this scorn❤︎

I'd love to relax and taste it with clotted cream at the cafe house when it gets possible. I'll order tea with milk, too♪ Or sometimes wine!?

It takes a good 20 minutes to get there in hurried steps. Opened in March 2020, it's already a very popular cafe many people stand in line.

I have been working from home and in a suburb of Tokyo since the state of emergency over coronavirus. An opportunity like this is rare. I will enjoy this unique days until the end of May. 

Without going to the office, I have a lot of, a lot of clothes I don't wear. I realized that I don't need to buy clothes which I can't wear in this state. That is one of the things I learned from COVID-19 pandemic 2020. So dear everyone in the world, what are you aware of?