Walk Don't Run

On a fine day, it's warm enough to go out for a walk...

Night walk is also fun with a great view of Osaka City...

THE SOCIAL TEA HOUSE

PEACE RUN & Adventure Runner Kay are proudly sponsored by

THE SOCIAL TEA HOUSE

The owner Andrew Ram Bittan is also a citizen of the world who loves China and Japan deeply and he imports the best tea leaves from both countries.

He has visited Japan before and this time he started PEACE RUN FUND in his company to support PEACE RUN.

Thanks Andrew for your friendship and support!

"THE SWEEPERS"

PEACE RUN supports the environmentally-friendly group "The Sweepers" which is a global community.

 All you need is a plastic bag. Walk around your town and pick up rubbish, garbage or trash.

That's all. 

You can do it wherever you are any time you want.

 Even if you pick up a piece, the world will change.

 Try it now!

“it starts here and now”

In my room there’s a calendar which introduces 31 poems of one of the famous Japanese poets Mitsuwo Aida’s.

On the first page it says “it starts here and now.”

Three months have passed since the year 2015 started.

A new fiscal year has just started today.


As for me, I’ve already started in my mind for the next trek.

But I have to set a clearer and more concrete goal.

I wonder how much farther I can run.

I wonder how old I will be when I finish running.



“it starts here and now”

Yes, it really does!

Now I'll restore my spirits and try to start something new.

Two Legs To Go

The second thing I appreciate next to the fact that I live here in this world is that I have two legs to walk or run.

 Shoes, sandal or One-Tooth Geta, it doesn’t matter what footwear I wear.

 I am impressed or moved and so grateful that I am able to stand on the ground on my own two legs.

 

How Nice It Is To Travel

How nice it is to travel!

Travel might be shedding your-old-self or graduation from your-past-self.

I travel because I love people.

I like time to meet people I have never known in some towns I have never visited.

I find myself in a scene unusual to me and suddenly I notice I have become a part of the scene.

And in such a scene I find myself enjoying another myself.

It’s nice to have a time to see my-inner-self and to have a talk with another me.

Because I can see clearly my-true-self who has been unknown to me.

No matter what happens, I never haste, I never panic and I stay cool.

I’d like to appreciate the time when my mind stays slow and mellow.

Treasure Box of the Earth

It’s been almost one month since I came back from New Zealand.

I often long for various scenes looking at many photographs which I took in New Zealand.

Mountains, sea, rivers, waterfalls and lakes, plateau, meadows…

There was a lot of wonderful scenery which makes me feel like coming back again some day.

It is a special privilege of the travelers that many impressions are provided in great mother nature.

The reward from the nature is something special simply because I visited with two legs of my own.

New Zealand seems to be called a treasure box of the earth.

What I did out there would be an act to open the cover of such a treasure box quietly.

I’ll have another chance to open the cover of the closed treasure box again some day in the future.

I may have different impressions from what I had at that time.