It was rainy and windy yesterday and the day before yesterday.
I was worried that the newly installed pump cover would be blown away by the strong winds of the typhoon, but I was relieved that it wasn't blown away.
It's raining intermittently this morning, but the wind has stopped and the sky is cloudy.
We have long heard about Japan becoming subtropical due to global warming, but for those of us who grew up as children in the 1950s, it is becoming more difficult to tell the seasons from year to year, and it feels very strange.
Where has the Japanese lifestyle of the 1950s, with its clear and beautiful four seasons, gone?
The reason why spring and autumn, which gently connect winter and summer, have disappeared lies in the way we humans live our lives...
Although impermanence is a norm in the material world, we would like to move forward together with the Earth, striving for coexistence and prosperity.
...That's what I think, as someone who was born in the 1950s and continues to live a Showa-era life in the countryside.
