Tuesday, June 17, 2003
I visited Edward's yesterday.
He is a wonder, I'll tell you that.
He can make a person feel like continuing breathing in and out, and with my combination of migraines / TMJ ,
this is saying a lot.
I only became aware of acupuncture last fall.
It is an alternative method of handling stress, and pain.
Edward is the best.
The place is in Setagaya [Sangenjaya] and when you walk in the smell of the moxa
incense hits you- it's a very unique scent.
An aura of calm permeates,
and to me, this is of the utmost importance.
Edward is so precise and gentle with the acupuncture- but he also gives a shiatsu and pressure point massage that completely shakes those persistent energy blockages loose.
He has a team of helpers that work with him.
It is an hour well spent, truly a treasure...
Things are less tense around my house.
My son took all his allowance money and I gave him the difference, and we went together and bought a new TV. The old one was losing sound- it was originally bought second hand to be used only for playing nintendo games on.
Time has marched on since those days-
It was definitely time to upgrade.
Amazing, TV's now...
This isn't a "plasma" TV or anything, but the sound is great, the picture so clear- playing nintendo on this is a 'heightened" experience...
My son is happy, and we are communicating a bit better lately.
But on a sadder note,
our purple parakeet died.
'Emmy' [short for "Amethyst" ] was the second of the original 2 parakeets left to us by my friend Xanthe,
when she left with her family for Hawaii.
They had become such dear friends to us.
Xanthe trained them from chicks to trust people, and they really did trust us.
First Iggy went, now Emmy.
I have their pictures in a frame on my son's window ledge where we kept them.
I have gotten so accustomed to their sounds and presence- I still look in the room to see him, but only the picture remains...
I went to see Mike Price play. He had a show of "A TRIBUTE TO BUDDY RICH" at BFlat Akasaka. It was very good. Mike was in the first trumpet chair in the Buddy Rich orchestra for 2 years, so he has a lot of enthusiasm for this project, and the featured drummer, Inagaki-san, was hap-nin'!
I've been painting for days !
Such beautiful progress to this slow, problem solving puzzle...
"The birds on every tree
are all so neighborly
they sing where ever I go...
I guess I'm just a lucky so and so " -Duke Ellington
Till next time... 'Mela
11:35 PM
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Photo: Michio Yves Ueda
