Silence before Dawn

Real Strength

Unlimited

Fly like wandering wind

Grow like a bamboo tree that enjoys typhoons,

Acknowledge yourself like stones that sits still for years.

Laugh always like cicadas who are given seven days to live

Another day, another story

like it was another today at another yesterday

(6 April 2013)

Love is Everywhere

Love is everywhere.

Love is constantly being produced by loves, as 'Love is a verb' by John Mayer.  

All I have to do is to open myself up for it 

so love can stay and feed me from inside.

They make me warm, caring, laugh, smile, relax, but sometimes it makes me cry 

as the love inside me continuously push my emo buttons. 

Now I know why I sometimes feel sad when thinking of you. 

When you say 'dont be sad for me', I have to say to the love inside of me 

not to push the sad icon.

Growth 成長

Abstract drawing by the participants of Yumi Umiumare's Summer Residential Workshop 2012

Growth

Growth is like drawing black lines on white canvas freely, progressing and retreating back and forth with thick and thin lines, sometimes with color of white, black and mixture of both, also accepting awkward and beautiful shapes as life.

Growth is like loving Bach, making a friend with John Coltrane and humming songs of Miyuki Nakajima - feeding to acoustic cell - the beginning of the world and the start of a story

Growth is like giving friends and family - and - stop expecting a return. That is as if a puppy, a sweet Williams in the garden and a baby wouldn't so.

Growth is like understanding the society pervading full of unfairness and injustice, and even so, to remain calm as if the patient stone stubbornly sits under a waterfall for years, silent. 

Is Growth to be re-aware that we are all parts of nature, after all.
  

成長とは

白いキャンバスに無数の線を引くこと。

迷いながら前進し、後退し

太い線も、細い線も

いびつな曲線も、美しい直線も

白も、黒も、灰色も、

私の一部と受け入れながら。


成長とは

バッハを愛し、John　Coltraneを友にし、そして中島みゆきを口ぶさむこと

聴覚細胞の肥やしとすること

それは物語の始まり、そして世界のはじまり。


成長とは

友人、家族に与えるということ

見返りを求めなくなること

子犬が、野に咲くスイートウィリアムズが、赤ん坊がそうであるように


成長とは

世の不条理を理解し

その中で賢く生き抜く術を身につけていくこと

まるで滝壺に何百年も居座る岩のように



成長とは、つまり、自分自身を自然の一部と再認識することになるのではないか。

Bus for Children's Country

行きたい時が出発時間

子どもの国行きバスは今日も満席

 

観覧車もジェットコースターもない

あるのはひとつの人形

木製のベンチ

そして勇者

子ども行きのバスは今日も満席

フロイトもサルトルもショパンもいない

あるのはピンクの人形

年老いたベンチ

そして白髪まじりの紳士

20年変わらぬ世界

子ども行きのバスは今日も満席

No timetable for the bus

The bus for Children's Country is full again today

No ferries wheels or roller coaster

A doll lives quietly

With a solder

The bus for Children's Country is full again today

No Freud, Sartre and Chopin

A pink doll lives quietly

With a gentleman with grey hair

No changes for 20 years

The bus for Children's Country is full again today

Ocean, woman and the earth

向き合うことの強さ

向き合うための覚悟

”あるもの”を受け入れる深さは心地よい諦めのひとつのカタチ

だから決してぶつからない

だけど決して妥協しない

共鳴と調和

認識と共存

ここにある自分、そこにあるあなた、ここにある地球

No fear to confront 

Ready to challenge

a comfortable surrender to what it is

we never clash into each other

we never compromise each other

resonant and harmony

recognition and co-existent

I am here, you are there and here we are on the earth

Moment

 

サボテンが花開くこの瞬間

あなたがいる

二匹のミツバチが蜜にすいつく瞬間

あなたがここにいる

絹地の花弁に朝日が眩く反射する、その瞬間

  恋人のあなたがいる

まるで、幾万もの「瞬間」の札が一点で符合するかのような

重なり合ってできる騒音と静寂

今、この瞬間

Local fruit and vegie shop

 After five o'clock on week day.   

At the fruit and vegie shop in Ascot Vale.

The shop is eight months old and a mature aged couple is working effortlessly inside.

The man is talkative yet not-so-good salesperson and the woman is a hard-worker - kicking sack of oranges into the shops when closing the shop. 

 

Bananas always welcome locals at the ridiculously cheap price and their freshness.

Layout of fruits and vegetables is rearranged regularly and so does the color of display. 

Limited selections of flowers seem to attract more attention than many - yellow of carnations, snow white of lilies and red of tulips - is this the man's sales strategy? 

Customers exchange greets and small talks while shopping - so do they with the shopkeeper

 

Competitive local shopping area - after five o'clock on week day. 

Melbourne, a Friend and Photograph

One night in Melbourne - comfortably humid air with occasional spring breeze leaping through the hill

A spontaneous catch up with a friend and talk about future dream

The moment you treasure for life