令和元年ベビー

Since the begining of this year, I've received a lot of glad tidings that some get pregnant and some gave births.

It's 令和元年baby!

I'm looking forward to hear the number of births in Japan in 2019 and googled "令和元年ベビー".

New era gives a silver lining to the decline in the birtherate, like millennium baby, I thought.

However, I got surprisingly a bad news.

According to the flash report on Vital Statistics (人口動態統計速報）, in the range from January to July in 2019, the number of births in Japan plummeted so extremely that it might be less than 900000（9 hundred thousant).

It said the cause of this year's decline is the decline of women in childbearing age following second generation baby boomers".

It can't be helped.

Anyway, I can see newborn babies soon. It is the exquisite happiness to me.  

on a cold stone...

In Japan, we have a proverb that says that three years on a cold stone will make the stone warm "石の上にも三年".

I think it makes sense because recently I'm finaly able to make sounds with my bamboo flute not by pure luck.

Not only when I started playing but also till recently, I don't think I can do it.

However, I know the proverb saying that if you don't, it will never be achieved.

So I've continued to blow day by day for 2 and half years.

My efforts will not betray me.

I wish I could be like Ushiwakamaru that is a nickname of Yoshitsune Minamono's childhood, as you know. 

His story was handed down till now. Ushiwakamaru could blow his flute on the bridge, jumping from one railing to another lightly with putting ipponba-geta一本下駄.

Of course, I can't hold a candle to Ushiwakamaru.

So, I tried to play bamboo flute with standing tiptoes.

Although I wobbled, I pulled it off.

I wish I could do it with pointe shoes instead of ipponba-geta..

summary of 11/9

On Tuesday,  I received an agenda of this week's forum.

I had a hunch.

It came true, it said that my turn of a mini-speech was next.

To tell the truth, I didn't have confidence to participate in today's forum because I bite more than I can chew recently.

I had a lot of events this week and I didn't have a plenty of time to prepare for this forum.

I was nearly absent from today's forum because I couldn't finish any homework at all.

However, I came.

Today's astrological article gave me encouragement.

To my surprise, it said that to express what I feel was very important even if I can't prepare. 

So I participated in forum with a rough mini-speech and without manuscripts of usual speeches.