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A good manga : Encouragement of Living by Seji TODA

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How can I have feeling when I don't know if it's a feeling?
How can I feel something if I just don't know how to feel?
How can I have feelings when my feelings have always been denied?
Oh no, oh no

from "How?" by John Lennon

If you have had a feeling like that as John and I had, I think this book would be a good torch. Yes is the answer.

Each story consists of short sentences in a few pages so that it also could be a good text for non-native Japanese speakers to learn Japanese language.

My favorite story is "花". Coming up like a flower, coming up like a flower, coming up like a flower...

"Decision in 2009" and "Walk in Black" are also beautiful. Stories about being afraid and beauty both in standing on your own feet.

生きるススメ
生きるススメ
戸田 誠二
宙出版

References

Benefit souvenirs for the children who lost their parents

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I know that I won't be forgiven even though I bought these goodies. I know. I know. But I couldn't help paying.

Yoko said she had visited there and had found sadnesses and sorrows on children's faces. "Please send postcards to them, and they would be cheered by," Yoko said to us.

Love Psychedelico, one of the last night's acts, played John's "Nobody Told Me." That's it. Nobody told me there'd be days like these. Strange days indeed. Most peculiar, mama. Wow!

BS Asahi (BS Digital Ch.5) to broadcast the show on Jan 1, 2012, at 7pm JST.

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A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs - NYTimes.com

This had to be done. Even now, he had a stern, still handsome profile, the profile of an absolutist, a romantic. His breath indicated an arduous journey, some steep path, altitude.

He seemed to be climbing.

But with that will, that work ethic, that strength, there was also sweet Steve’s capacity for wonderment, the artist’s belief in the ideal, the still more beautiful later.

via nytimes.com

I missed the time when my mother passed away. Another parent, too. Steve and his family were fortunate. I miss it. I miss them.