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My 5-year-old son is happy to find cicada shells here and there.

It looks like a lot of fun to play with it however you like, whether you attach it to clothes, put it in a insect cage, or place it on top of Lego.

Kyushu continues to be humid and hot like a subtropical region, but two learning opportunities were held in the midst of this.

"Yoga, Chinese New Year and Eating Meditation" by Kentaro Goto and Masaru Goto

Nao Fujiwara's "Cooking class for you" and "Cooking and talk session to make yourself happy with your own hands"

Thank you to everyone who participated.

The date has not yet been decided, but we have asked all three of you to join us for the next learning opportunity, so please look forward to it.

The learning that had been going on since May has now come to an end, and in August I went to Wakayama Ens and Oita Scene for Yasuhide Ono 's exhibition.

The exhibition of Utsushiki will continue from the Autumn /Winter Exhibition on Kagetsubi.

I will post updates about upcoming learning opportunities on my Instagram, so don't miss it!

I suddenly decide to start it, so be sure to check it out .

I am the one who was greatly influenced by that learning environment.

Through these four learning sessions, I gained many new perspectives and gained many changes.

This time, the eating meditation was eating curry with one's hands.

Actually, I'm not good at mixing food together when eating ... I don't really mix curry, rice bowls, or eggs on top, so I make a "rice iceberg" of rice that I never mix, and then eat plain white rice as the final dish.

As expected, I was eating as usual that day, but I decided to try something different this time and mixed everything together halfway through.

It may seem easy to stop or change your usual way of doing things, but you'll find that it actually requires a surprising amount of determination to do it.

"Just mix it up, right?"

No, this is as courageous as doing your first headstand in yoga lol.

There are surprisingly many small things like this in our daily lives, like "I do it this way" or "I do it this way."

There are many things we become attached to without realizing it ...

It was also impressive that Nao-san said, "The longer you cook something, the more delicious it will be."

We tend to think that easy cooking equals time-saving, but I think this is the wisdom of Nao, who values ​​home cooking.

At the same time, when I look back at my daily cooking methods, I wonder if there are parts of my routine that I am blind to.

Is it a habit or a preference to always cut hair in the same way, or am I just being distracted by the word "busy" ?

Yes, on the day I went to pick up Nao, I failed miserably making yakisoba for lunch.

This is also a failure caused by "time saving"

I was reminded that we need to look at everything over a long time scale and consider whether or not to skip this process now.

In our busy lives, we dislike change and find it dreadfully troublesome to have our usual routines disrupted.

I believe that deep down we all have a desire to change and improve.

I would be delighted if this step or opportunity to take the time to reflect and accept change would be a support in your daily life after you have completed your learning experience.

In the end, I still like eating my food the way I always have, but from the day I started mixing my rice, I began to notice the many attachments I have in my daily life, and I feel like by recognizing these attachments, I have been able to drop them, even if only a little.

Now that it's getting hotter and the kids are waking up earlier, I barely have that golden time every morning.

In the past, I would get angry and blame my family for the time I couldn't find, but

I realized that I was obsessed with "good times" and

When I realized that my attachment made me angry, and that getting angry made me affirm the time and myself that I couldn’t do,

I naturally began to feel that this time was a waste.

That doesn't mean I've given up, but I'm thinking about how to adapt to the situation.

However, I have reached a state where I can repeat this process on a daily basis.

During this hot summer, why not take some time to reflect over a cup of iced coffee?

You may be able to relax your shoulders and enjoy a comfortable summer.

Have a nice summer.

Ono Kaori