The task for today’s practice session was a calendar for the year 2019.
As you can see, the last stroke of the letter 『DREAM 夢』is still missing.
I am going to ask my mother to finish the letter when we practice together next time.
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今日の課題は、２０１９年のカレンダー。
ご覧の様に『夢』の最後の点はまだ書いていません。
今度一緒にお稽古するときに母に書いてもらいます。
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After dinner on the eve of harvest moon, I went out for a short walk with my mother on her wheel chair and was in an ill temper a little, hoping she would feel better. As she was appreciating the huge, beautiful moon, she obviously began to feel better and peaceful.
Bright moon/
Untangles/
Old mother’s emotional tension/
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中秋の名月の前夜、食事の後で、ちょっとご機嫌斜めの母と夜の車椅子散歩に出ました。大きくて綺麗なお月さんを見ているうちに母の心もほどけて行きました。
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Today is my mother’s ninetieth birthday. We received best wishes for her from a number of people and some pretty flowers from her pretty niece.
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今日は母の９０回目の誕生日。お祝いの言葉が届き、可愛い姪っ子からは可愛いお花が届きました。
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These are the results of today’s practice session; copying practice and having a fun writing on a paper fan. For the latter, I chose the first letter of my mother’s name, 絹(silk).
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今日のお稽古の成果を並べてみます。臨書と、団扇に書きつけるというお楽しみ。母の名の初めの字（絹）を書きました。
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My mother has been hospitalized almost three weeks, and she committed to rehabilitation during that period. GOOD FOR HER!
Undergoing rehab/
Anchorage for tomorrow/
Oh, rose periwinkles/
Translation and calligraphy by Tomoko
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３週間近い入院でしたが、その間母はよくリハビリを頑張ってくれました！
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Year after year, a kind neighborhood lady gives us gorgeous hydrangea flowers. Just for a moment I thought of bringing them to my mother’s hospital bedroom. However, I changed my mind, since she will be back in a couple of days.
Girl split up/
Thrusting up/
Balls of hydrangeas/
Translation and calligraphy by Tomoko
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毎年いただきますが、今年もご近所からもらいました。
母の病室に持って行こうかなと考えましたが、２〜３日もすれば帰ってくるので止めました。
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My mother and I found this while taking a walk. I wish I could take a picture when it was stretching its neck to the maximum.
Blue heron dances/
Waiting for the rice planting girls/
To appear/
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母との散歩の途中で見つけました。ぐんと首を伸ばしたところを撮りたかったのですが・・・。
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Gerbera daisies that late Mrs. M. who was a very good friend of my mother’s gave us bloomed this spring again.
If primulas are grandpa’s flowers, gerberas are Mrs. M’s flowers.
Gerbera daisies/
Keep on blabbering/
In the darkness/
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今はもうおられない母の親友のお庭からいただいたガーベラが今年も咲いてくれました。
プリムラがおじいちゃんのお花なら、ガーベラはMさんのお花です。
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Because the task for today’s practice session was to choose and write one letter from our own name, in other words, the same as the last time, this time I chose one from my mother’s name.
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今日のお稽古の課題は、先日と同じように自分の名前から一文字とって書く、というものでした。それで、私は母の名前から一字書きました。
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In our garden, primula flowers are beginning to bloom year in, year out. My mother told me my granddad liked this flower and when she got married and came to our house to live, the flowers were already there.
My mother and I didn’t know the name and used to call this flower “granddad’s flower” until the lady next door who is a keen gardener taught us it was “primula”.
Granddad/
Is a very warm/
Stub/
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今年も毎年のように庭のプリムラが咲き始めました。母によると、祖父がこの花が好きだったようで、母がお嫁に来た時には既に咲いていたそうです。母も私もこの花の名前を知らなかったので、「おじいちゃんの花」と呼んでいました。ガーデニングがお得意のお隣の奥さまに教えてもらうまで。
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