Wednesday, April 10, 2013

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)

Thursday, April 4, 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.





Monday, April 1, 2013

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。