Holidays called "the golden week" is over now and spring is turning into early summer around here. Spring flowers such as tulips and daffodils are almost gone and fresh green leaves are beautiful now. People enjoy going out and enjoy nature. In the field they are starting farming; plant vegetable seedlings or plowing the rice paddies.
Yesterday we made "miso"-bean past, one of Japanese basic seasoning. We boiled soy beans in a big pot and mushed them. Mixed it with malted rice and salt and packed it in a big barrel. In a year we can enjoy good bean past.
Until some decades ago most families here made bean past and soy sauce themselves, but now many of them stopped to make them by themselves, just go and buy at the supermarkets.
When I was working at school, I was too busy and felt too stressed to think of food for my family. After retirement I joined a women's group and I learned how to make bean past from them. Those women are so wise and know a lot about making food, farming, and sewing. To farm and produce food to eat is the basic skill for living, I feel now. To buy the ready made food from the shelves of the supermarkets knowing nothing seems a fragile way of life, isn't it?
March 3rd was our Constitution Day, so we had many kinds of act to appeal it. We also collected the signatures to ask for the Nobel Peace Prize to the article 9 of our constitution, which declares not to go to war and not to have army and weapons. In fact we have a big army, but we, people have protested to go worse. It's so strange that people have to act to keep the constitution against the government. The government is responsible to keep it.
Many conflicts in many places in the world were reported in the TV news this evening; Ukraine, China and Vietnam,Thailand and so on... Can't we stop fighting?
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