日本人 心安らぐ 障子文化

　年のせいか、月日が経つのがとても早く感じ、今日を含めて１月もあと5日のみです。令和４年になって以来、果たして前進したことはあるか自らに問うてます。

　一人暮らしゆえ、人と話す機会が少なく、社会との接点を目的に、一人暮らしの高齢女性のゴミ出しを定期的に行なったり、小学生の下校交通指導での声掛け運動、買い物ではレジの女性と必ず一言話すようにしてます。

　この意識して声を出すことが肺機能の健康につながると思います。現役時代は人前で話すことが多かったのに、現在はそれに代わりに腹式呼吸を意識し、音読することに努めてます。

　ところで、近年、日本文化の象徴である障子が少なくなりました。この環境は落ち着きます。今でも１６本ある障子文化を守ります。たまには張り替えよう。

Dear my friends overseas especially living at Auckland in NZ

　Perhaps because of my age, I feel that the days have passed very quickly, and January, including today, is 5 days only. I am asking myself, "What have I made any progress since the beginning of 4th year of Reiwa(2022).

　I live alone, of course, thinking of you perpetually, so that I have few opportunities to talk to people, therefore for the purpose of contact with society, I regularly take out the garbage of elderly woman living alone, and I always talk to elementary school students when in traffic guidance, and when shopping, I make it a rule to talk a word with a lady cashier.

　I think that consciously speaking out will lead to the health of lung and cerebral function. When I was active with you, I spoke in public, but now there's no chance, so I am conscious of abdominal breathing to read a book aloud instead. How sad!

　Not change the subject, but in recent years, the number of sliding paper door named shoji in our tongue, which is a symbol of Japanese traditional culture, has decreased. This environment calms me down mentally. I protect the 16 shoji cultures still now. I will try to repaper these sliding door after a long interval aiming your coming again.

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