草木も眠る丑三つ時

草木も眠る丑三つ時、我が家の番猫ことRunが夜回りから戻ってきて、
家人の寝間に入りたいと鳴き訴えるので、障子を空かせて入れました。

普段なら夜半に戻ると、応接間や玄関などで大人しく寝ているのですが、
昨夜はなぜか猫なりに人恋しくなったらしく、寝間へ潜り込んできました。

そして暫く家人の身体に擦り寄ったりした後、満足げに寝付いたようです。

彼Runの働きのお陰で、稲刈り後に襲来するハツカネズミの害もなくなり、
有難く思うと同時に、猫は猫なりに寂しくなる時もあるのだなと感じました。

そして私はというと、その後朝まで寝付けず、今日一日寝不足気味です。



(Time where the vegetation sleeps)

Around 3 o'clock of the midnight when the vegetation, too, sleeps
Because that "Run" of the tomcat that the night watch finished entered our bedroom was eager, I opened a sliding paper door and welcomed him.

If being usual "Run", it went to bed quietly alone at the drawing room and the vestibule and so on but he last night was slipped into our bedroom, that he seemed lonely.
"Run" demanded physical contact from us, and it was satisfied and slept quietly.

"Run" of the cat is a hard worker plainly.
When the harvesting of the rice in this area finishes every year, the mice which were in the rice paddy invade a house.
However, as far as "Run" is guarding, the mice, too, can not invade the inside at the house easily.
The we family appreciates "Run".

I felt that there was time when "Run" of such a hard worker, too, becomes lonely.
I could not sleep until the morning after the happening last night and in the daytime today, I became want of sleep.

狐の嫁入りと狸の葬式

３日程前、黄海辺りに発生した熱帯低気圧によるものか、
はたまた昨日発生した台風６号・７号の影響なのか、
このところ晴れたかと思えば、急に土砂降りの様相です。

そして日中は残暑が酷く、屋外に出れば汗が噴出します。

しなね様が終わり、朝晩がやや過ごし易くなった矢先に、
狐の嫁入りと狸の葬式を合わせたような天気が続きます。

ただ台風が過ぎる毎に、秋は確実に近づきつつあります。

Cheezeと暮らす

我が家の番犬Cheezeは、今年８月２５日で９歳(人間の年齢で言うと５２歳 )です。

最近はすっかりおじさんおじさんして、以前のような愛らしさは薄らいできましたが、
それでも生まれ持った素直さと従順さ、そして番犬としての責任感は変わりません。

さて我が家がある郊外の田園地帯でも、近年人間へ危害を与えるといった理由から、
以前のように犬の放し飼いは出来なくなり、Cheezeもたまに敷地内へ放たれる他は、
年がら年中鎖に繋がれ自由なき生活なので、恋も出来ず決して快適でないはずです。

犬だって本当は地上を思いっきり駆け回り、恋をしたり自由に生きる権利があるはず、
犬だって、勿論他のどんな生物生命体であっても自由に暮らす権利があるはずです。

弱肉強食は命を繋ぐ自然の摂理として、また進化の過程上当然だと理解できますが、
利権を行使して過剰に乱獲したり、趣味としての殺戮捕獲は、人間だけの行為です。
いつから人間は他のエリアを侵したり、無益な殺戮等をするようになったのでしょうか。

Cheezeは近所の酒屋から貰ってきて、その殆どを通路の狭い空間に繋がれたまま、
彼方此方へと２０メートル間を往復するだけで、番犬としてその生涯を終えるはずです。

Cheezeの本来の生き方は繋がれたたままでなく、もっと別のところにあったはずです。
でも彼はこの世に生を受けてからずっと此処が全てだったので、他の何も知りません。

猿山でのお話 (Boss monkey of high caliber)

．．．．．肌色の猿たちが、猿山の天辺に居座ることを目指して、諍いを始めた。

今回の諍いは、東方の日出る場所に棲む、彼らの間で起こった。
その肌色の猿たちは、少し黄色がかった肌色をしている。

その肌色の猿たちは、近年絶対的な力のあるボスを輩出できずにいる。
そのため頻繁にボスの首が挿げ替えられ、徒党を組み直し、群れを維持する努力をしている。

今回の諍いは、新興勢力の群れが、猿山に居座った直後から始まっていた。
その猿たちの誰もがお山の大将になりたいと願い、その内中心的な４匹が諍うこととなった。

その４匹とは、世俗を離れ改心したかのように見えた現在のボス猿。
乳離れが上手くいかなかった宇宙人的思考で迷走する猿。
切り株に腰掛けその時を持する徳川家康的な潜行中の猿。
そして敵役は、未だ禊ぎが済まない、しかし群れ管理が得意な旧態依然猿。

これらの猿たちが演じるお山の大将ごっこは、どれもこれもドングリの背比べである。
彼らの本音は群れの行く末を案じ、猿山を本来の姿に立て直し、時の移ろいを憂う事でなく、
我こそが世に選ばれし者だと確信し、全てをうっちゃり、お山の大将を目指しているのである。

はてさて、肌色の猿たちの今回の騒動は、これにて一件落着と相成りますことやら、
群れの行く末を案じ、猿山の本来あるべき姿を立て直し、時の移ろいを憂う事が出来る猿、
猿の群れから信頼と尊敬を得られる真の総覧把的な猿は、何時になったら現れることやら．．．。



(Power game played out by monkeys)

" It aimed at The top of apery" and the flesh color monkeys began a battle again.

The monkeys of the flesh color live in the country where the sun in the east rises.
The monkeys are doing the flesh color which is near the yellow.

In recent years, the boss monkey which has absolute power doesn't appear in the group of the monkey of the flesh color.
The neck of the boss monkey is frequently changed from the such reason by the group of the flesh color monkey.
Every time the neck of the boss changes, the group of the monkey conspires once more and is doing the effort which maintains a new group.

Recently, in The apery, the group of the new influence excluded the group of old influence.
Since after the group of the new influence governs The apery, the battle this time started.
We asked when monkeys anyone of the new influence wanted to become "The top of apery".
Then, finally, four monkeys chose the battle of "The top of apery" from the inside of the group of the monkey.

This is four appearing monkeys.
The monkey which appears on the 1st is the current boss monkey which continues the play-acting which cleansed a becoming heart with the Buddhist.
The monkey which appears on the 2nd is the monkey that the weaning didn't go well and also that it made a monkey group cause confusion in the consideration having to do with an alien.
The monkey which appears on the 3rd is a monkey like Tokugawa Ieyasu who looks forward to coming patiently in the time, sitting at the stump.
The monkey which appears on the 4th is the antique monkey which is however good at the supervision of the group that the ablutions which faces in the sin hasn't finished.

As for "The top of apery" which these monkeys stage, the script which becomes the result which is similar whichever monkey becomes a boss monkey is prepared.

By the way, when saying the real intention of the monkey which aims at "The top of apery", that they are not the way of making The apery the best, not being, thinking of the future of the monkeys, too, is not to give the monkeys hope.
They are thinking only of aiming at "The top of apery".

By the way, after "The top of apery" is decided this time, will the long-term stability be attempted in this?
Then, what time will true "The top of apery" which can get respect from the group of the monkey with the trust appear if it becomes?

打ち水・葉水

．．．朝晩が随分過ごしやすくなってきました。

特に朝日が昇るまでは、肌寒くさえ感じられ、
夕刻は翳り始めると、凌げる様になりました。

今日帰宅後、暑さで弱った庭木に葉水を掛け、
序でに涸れ掛かった水鉢にも水を満たしました。

庭へ打ち水した後は、一気に涼感が拡がり、
樹木をくぐり抜けくる風も、心地よくなりました。

週間天気予報では、暫く晴れが続くとのこと、
ただ黄海辺りに生まれた台風が気掛かりです。

負の遺産

急いては事をし損じる。と言われますが、確かに性急に物事を行ったり、
間に合わせのやっつけ仕事では直にメッキが剥がれ、解れがでたりする。

つまりそれは私達人類が近年確立させた資本経済至上主義のあり方が、
国家や民族間、文化や思想宗教さえも包括、全てに席巻し及んだことで、
それまで堅持してきた精神的価値観も同時に覆したことを意味している。

資本経済至上主義のあり方は、不必要な整備や拡充を繰り返し推し進め、
有効な資源は短期無計画に取り尽くされ、後には負の遺産だけを残した。

マネーを稼ぐ為には魂さえも売り払い、濡手で粟的な粗造乱発へと誘う。
その弊害は、生命の尊厳や自然の営みそのものを踏みにじる結果となり、
社会がマネーの価値観のみで成立し、それに縛られ操られるようになる。

魂を込めてゆっくりと創られしものは、悠久の時を変わることなくあり続け、
利益追求が為に創られしものは、無駄な浪費を重ねるだけで短命となる。

急いては事をし損じる。功名と利権を欲し、刹那の栄誉栄華を得た代償は、
足元にありし尊きもの、長く培われた真実さえも滅びることになり兼ねない。

葉月十六夜

今宵は満月．．．東の地平線にぽっかり浮かび揚がった宵闇の月も、

今は空高く昇り、地上を睥睨するが如くにありて、夜を照らしています。

その夜の時間が長くなるにつれ、朝夕の間合いには涼しさが加わり、

気付けば草に潜みし秋虫の声に、切なき季節を感ぜざるを得ません。

毎日が暑い、とても熱い、そして暑い...

(Every day is hot and it is very hot and then is hot.)

Hi! Dear friend.

How is the climate of Germany in the summer this year?
Various parts of Japan are very as hot as to have become 38 °C of centigrades in Hokkaido, too, in the summer in Japan.
Of course, Kochi which I live in is very hot in the present, too, and needs a great deal of drink every day as the heat exhaustion measure.

By the way, your Alps crossing this year is not a bicycle and seems to be a small motorcycle.
In other words, as for "I am old, but weak!" which you said, I, too, become old.

If saying an advanced age, it talked over the phone with the other day, your mother but she was well.
My mother, too, is 83 years old this year but goes out every day in the here and there passing with the motorcycle.

Then, I, too, make busy every day in the work, the hobby and the agriculture.

The hospital and the operation to have written in Brog are my younger brother.
He removed the other day stomach with stomach cancer discovered by the general check-up.
Because it was just the early stages, the change is not in his stomach cancer and next week, it seems able to leave hospital.

The hot day continues every day.
Appreciate your own body and be healthily.
I ask that the Alps crossing which you make pleasant is a fortunate travel.



The postscript:
There is a festival, "Shinane-sama", in Tosa-Ichinomiya shrine in Kochi today and tomorrow.

There are various views in the etymology of the "Shinane-sama".
It is an opinion, the opinion to have risen from the god "Shinathu-hiko" of the wind, the opinion which the new rice changed into, and then the smithery and the wind which is related to the deity.

Then, it is introduced from the old days when the hot summer in Kochi ends when this "Shinane-sama" ends.

残暑に呟く（処暑）

陽気とどまりて、初めて退きやまんとすれば也（暦便覧）


．．．残暑の厳しさが一向に収まりません。

朝の散歩を終えて、会社の６階まで階段を上ると、汗が一気に噴出し、
空気を入れ換えエアコン作動後も暫くは、全身汗ダラダラ状態です。

それから汗が引くまでの１５分程は、メールやネットニュースをチェック、
同時に熱い珈琲を喫することにより、体と心のリラックスタイムとします。

その後７時を幾分回ると気分も落ち着き、仕事に対する意欲が湧き始め、
頭とPC回路は業務用へ切り替わり、自己暗示的な仕事モード突入です。

そして外気温が高まり、エアコンを２３度にしても、暑く感じ始めた午後、
デスクワークに見切りを付けた私は、スクーターで現場へ出掛けます。

午後の日射しと路面の輻射熱は、オーブンでジリジリ焦がされるが如く、
信号待ちの度にビルや街路樹などの陰へ停まり、避暑に努めるのです。

業務を終え家路に就く時間になっても、野外の暑さは収まることをせず、
焼け付くような日射しは背に突き刺さり、熱風を切り裂き帰るのです。

そう言えば去年の今頃も、同じようなことを呟いていたような気がします。
今年の残暑は特に厳しく感じると、毎年この頃になると呟いているのです。

The flesh-colored monkey

...A word, the eco, penetrated to all over the world and was completely understood.

The eco is the word which summarized an ecology of course.
When examining this word with the dictionary, it is with the natural environment protection exercise.
Then, it is made the way of thinking which aims at the harmony and the coexistence of the human being life and the nature from the viewpoint that the human being, too, is the member of the ecosystem.

However, when attempting to think of the meaning of the harmony and the coexistence of the human being life and the nature, it seems to be the word to denounce the selfishness of the naturally facing human race by, too.

The animals to have isolated from the natural world which were captured by the selfishness of the human being live in if going to the zoo.
The following sentences attempted to imagine the human society which was seen from the animals which live in the cage which was captured by the selfishness of the human being.

The world out of seeing from the inside of the cage passes by evolved "The flesh-colored monkey".
Then, there is a wide parking space to have been made of asphalt out of this zoo.
"The flesh-colored monkey" rides the object which the fossil fuel which was made with metal and chemicals moves there.
"The flesh-colored monkey" puts on the clothing of the colorful fiber and wears shoes and passes the cage which we live in.
The genius of "The flesh-colored monkey" seems to be to manipulate fire, to cultivate the earth, to control water and to change a nature in the atmosphere.

"The flesh-colored monkey" dominates this star.
This star is re-formed to suit them and the resources of this star are lost.
It thinks that this star of "The flesh-colored monkey" is the possession of us.

However, recently, it began to think that it seemed that it spent resources wastefully too much by "The flesh-colored monkey".
Then, it began to notice that the other lifeform which lives together in this star began to ruin.
Also, it seems that it begins to understand, saying the environment deterioration of this star became serious.

"The flesh-colored monkey" began to notice that our own future became dangerous when it didn't think slow of the global environment and the other lifeform which began to ruin, too.
Then, finally, this natural world and we began to think that it and we became incompatible.

The society of "The flesh-colored monkey" is still arrogant but however, they seem to have begun to change little by little.

It thinks of the animals which live in the cage.
As for us, this capture is done and the inside of the cage is all of the worlds.
However, as for "The flesh-colored monkey", too, this ground world will be all.