Time really flies.
Five years have passed
since the one-coin café was opened
in the community on Jan.28, 2014.
It is run by volunteers.
Oh, I used to work here every Thursday
afternoon as a volunteer waitress---
for one year and a half.
You can drink coffee, green tea or
English tea for 100 yen.
The café is loved by us elderly people.
My apartment is located near the café
and I go there alone a few times a week.
I enjoy talking with people in the community.
Some are older than I--in their eighties.
Others are in their seventies.
I'm often inspired by their way of life.
(yesterday)
They remind me of the poem YOUTH
by an American poet, Samuel Ullman.
The first part of the poem is---
Youth is not a time of life---it is a state of mind;
it is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination,
a vigor of the emotions, a predominance of courage
over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over love of ease.
青春とは人生の或る期間を言うのではなく、心の様相を言うのだ。
優れた創造力、逞しき意志、燃ゆる情熱、怯懦を却ける勇猛心、
安易を振り捨てる冒険心、
こういう様相を青春というのだ。
Five years have passed
since the one-coin café was opened
in the community on Jan.28, 2014.
It is run by volunteers.
Oh, I used to work here every Thursday
afternoon as a volunteer waitress---
for one year and a half.
You can drink coffee, green tea or
English tea for 100 yen.
The café is loved by us elderly people.
My apartment is located near the café
and I go there alone a few times a week.
I enjoy talking with people in the community.
Some are older than I--in their eighties.
Others are in their seventies.
I'm often inspired by their way of life.
(yesterday)
They remind me of the poem YOUTH
by an American poet, Samuel Ullman.
The first part of the poem is---
Youth is not a time of life---it is a state of mind;
it is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination,
a vigor of the emotions, a predominance of courage
over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over love of ease.
青春とは人生の或る期間を言うのではなく、心の様相を言うのだ。
優れた創造力、逞しき意志、燃ゆる情熱、怯懦を却ける勇猛心、
安易を振り捨てる冒険心、
こういう様相を青春というのだ。
