小満に 青海実り 垂れる枝

　今日は二十四節気の一つ「小満」です。麦がそろそろ実り始め、梅の実やビワの実も生り始め、今年も収穫が約束され、農家にとって「小さな満足」の時季といえます。

　天文学上、公転してる地球から見る太陽は「スバル星団」に近づいてます。スバル星団は「おうし座」に属し、真冬に宮古島の真上を通過するいくつかの星の塊で、日本列島のどこからでも見えます。子供のころ、私は「何故あの星たちはかたまってるのか」不思議に感じました。

 Today is "Shohman" that means one of the twenty-four solar calendars in our nation since ancient times. In agriculture, wheat will begin to grow soon, and plum and loquat will begin to grow and bear, and this year's harvest will be promised, so that it will be the season when farmers are "slightly satisfied".

 Astronomically, the sun seen from the revolving earth is approaching the "Pleiades". The Pleiades that belongs to the Taurus is a mass of several stars that passes through directly above Miyako-island in midwinter. The Pleiades is visible from everywhere of Japanese archipelago. When I was a child, I felt wondering, "Why are those stars concentrated?"

　昨日の午後、暫くぶりに「吉井ドリームセンター」へ入浴に行きました。広い湯船は心身ともに寛げます。令和になってすでに２０日が経過しました。人生１００年時代を迎えても、絶対に認知症にならないための手立ては日々の生活の中で「人に何かしてもらう気持ちを持たないこと」、「時間を忘れるほど、集中できるものを持つこと」と改めて認識しました。現実にはもうすぐ６５才以上の５人に１人が認知症になるといわれてます。

 After a long interval, I went to bathing to "Yoshii Dream Center" in the afternoon yesterday. This is just between you and me and lamppost that the fee is very cheep at only 200 yen, so I could relax my mind and body in the wide bathtub. Twenty days have already passed since the Reiwa era began. I recognized again that even if we are alive, what we call, in the era of 100 years of life, two of the most important ways of living are that "We should not rely on others" in daily life, and that "I should have something I am able to concentrate on as I forget time", so as not to suffer from senile dementia. In reality, It will be estimated that one in five people beyond 65 years old will suffer from dementia in the near future.