The couple next door to us have been really kind and considerate to both my mother and me.　Yesterday, my mother and I practiced calligraphy for the first time in months.　The photo shows what she wrote for them, including as you see, something out of season.

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お隣のご夫妻は母と私に本当に良くしてくださいます。昨日は母と久しぶりにお稽古をしましたが、母は写真の色紙などをお隣さんのために書きました。中には季節外れのものもありますが。

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I keep taking walks a couple of times day after day asked by my mother who loves going out.　Just despite myself, I made an eardrop from the flowers blooming at the side of our usual walking course and put it on my mother’s ear for fun.

Red spider lilies/

Splendor both/

In clusters and alone/

Translation and calligraphy by Tomoko

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母にねだられて、散歩、散歩の日々。思わず彼岸花で耳飾りを作って、母親をネタに遊んでしまいました。

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September 11 was my teacher’s birthday.　He was born in the year of dragon, and also my mother was born in the year of that imaginary creature.

“Dragon flies up into the sky.”

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今日は師匠の誕生日です。彼は辰年生まれでした。母もそうなんです。

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After my mother wrote this the other day for my old friend, she also created this one, “happiness”.　Because the creator herself loves her own work, I had it made to be displayed.　I can’t stop wondering if she is happy living with me.

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先日私の旧友のためにこれを書いた後、母が書いたものです。本人が気に入っているので表装してもらいました。母は私といて幸せなのかな、と考えてしまいます。

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Mother in her childhood again/

Is laughing and clapping to the/

Sunshine reflected by the/

Sun catchers/

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幼子に還った母がはしゃいでる/

サンキャッチャーが弾く太陽（ひかり）よ/

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