いちじくが良く取れる季節になった。いちじくは傷むのが早いので、誰かに差し上げようにもなかなかその日のうちにお会いしてお渡しできる人でないと難しいし、いちじくが好きかどうかもわからないので江田島の実家にいちじくが溢れ始める。いちじくの中には時折蟻が入ってくるので、蟻の入ったものを渡すわけにもいかず困っている。田舎ではこういう事態はよく起きる。季節になると採れすぎほど採れるのでそこいらで季節のものが溢れるから面白い。これはこれで幸せなことなんだろう。
１合気体操
２足捌き
３受け身
４玄形呼吸投げストレッチ
５逆半身片手取り玄形呼吸投げ
６逆半身ループ
７逆半身片手取り入身投げ
８逆半身片手取り二教裏
９逆半身片手取り内回転投げ表ストレッチ（杖の手引き）
１０逆半身片手取り内回転極め
いろんな声が聞こえてくる。言い訳や厳しい声、賛否、しかしそのどれを選んで自分が受け入れるか、それは自分次第だ。甘い言葉を受け入れて、成長を止める人間になりたくないという気持ちはどこまで続くのか、自分が試されている。それはずっと変わらない。
It is the season when figs are plentiful.
Figs spoil quickly, so it is difficult to share them unless I can meet someone and give them away on the very same day. Even then, I do not know whether they actually like figs. As a result, the figs at my family’s home on Etajima begin to pile up.
Sometimes ants find their way inside the fruit, which makes it unsuitable to give away. It is a small but familiar problem of country life.
Things like this happen often in rural areas. When a season arrives, nature sometimes gives far more than we can consume, and suddenly the local area is overflowing with whatever happens to be in season. There is something amusing and wonderful about that.
Perhaps this too is a form of happiness.
Practice
- Aiki exercises
- Footwork
- Ukemi (falling techniques)
- Genkei Kokyu-nage Stretch
- Gyaku-hanmi Katate-dori Genkei Kokyu-nage
- Gyaku-hanmi Loop
- Gyaku-hanmi Katate-dori Irimi-nage
- Gyaku-hanmi Katate-dori Nikyo Ura
- Gyaku-hanmi Katate-dori Uchi Kaiten-nage Omote Stretch (guided with the jo)
- Gyaku-hanmi Katate-dori Uchi Kaiten Osae
Many voices reach our ears.
Excuses. Harsh criticism. Approval and disapproval.
Yet which of those voices we choose to accept is ultimately up to us.
I do not want to become the kind of person who accepts only comforting words and allows growth to stop. How long I can continue holding onto that belief is something that life continues to test.
And that, perhaps, is one thing that never changes.
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