Verbalize.

Verbalize.

　When I go to the barbershop, we have a casual conversation. "The new dentist over there,” ‘Saito-san, It's a mom and her son thing.” right?’ ‘Yes, but the mother only sees old patients now,’ ‘That's how it is,’ ”The mother, you know, helps out at the neighborhood Sunshine Cafe. The children gather at the table in front of the store and stamp. If they collect stamps, they get a free cup of coffee. What was that called...?” ‘Is it a stamp rally?’ ”Yes, it is.　　　

　We continue this conversation, but the lady at the barbershop has a hard time coming up with words. Unlike me, a retiree, she must have chatted with customers while getting a haircut much more than I do. Also, what is wrong with her, she is the same age as me.

　It is true that as we get older, it becomes harder to speak. It takes me about one second to get a word out. But she can't get a word out. It's a little scary, isn't it?

　I'm on Facebook, and I've noticed that when I only look at my friends' posts, I quickly run out of new content. When I look at Facebook, I am never bored with the various photos and pictures that are posted one after another. Pictures of various national and international tourist attractions are intriguing.

　Facebook also offers quizzes. I found it quite difficult to find the three mistakes in the pictures on the left and right. I give myself OK if I find two out of three, but sometimes I find all three, and this gives me a sense of accomplishment.

　When I am doing this quiz, my wife looks at the PC screen and says, “Do you get it? Do you understand? She looks at the screen for a while and says, “Oh, this,” and then, “And here. Since we're looking at the same screen, "this" or "here" makes sense, but I'll try to describe it as much as possible. For example, when I see a boy and a girl drawing, I try to put it into words such as, “The cat's tail on the upper right is pointing up while the one on the left is pointing down,” or “The blue crayon on the lower left of the screen is shorter than the one on the right. Is this a training of verbalization? And when I don't know the name clearly, I ask Bing or Google. “What do you call the tool used in the tea ceremony for mixing tea?” Chasen”, ”What is the name of the spoon used to scoop tea in the tea ceremony? Chasaji,”. This is how I'm getting my vocabulary back.

　Do you feel comfortable understanding the meaning of your own writing when you read it? I always keep this in mind, but it takes daily train g to verbalize what I see with my eyes, to verbalize.
2025.5.31

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