I am lucky to have friends who share my passion and interest for architecture and design. It's great to have fun with these friends when we visit architecture exhibitions. They might have professional view, comment and knowledge that I don't have, but I have words to share with them to express my impression and wonder when I face great design and architecture. I feel extremely happy to describe my amateur opinion, because that is the view they don't have and is likely to amuse them. My simple impression might be out of the professional context, which I assume, can possibly serve them as a catalyst to sometimes find unexpected side of the fact that they have been familiar with. I, on the other hand, gain significant benefit from the experience to listen to their professional words that helps me to understand professional perspective.
I like looking up the sky and seeing stars, moon and sun. People sometimes asks me if I like to be at seaside or in the mountain. Both are great, surely, but honestly I like to be in the sky the most. I'm happy looking at the sky and space. I feel like I am attracted by, literally, their gravity. Earth, moon, sun and every singly stars we know have its own gravity. So I wonder if human has its own small gravity each other, even though it's in much more minimum scale, could this thought be possible?
"Less is more", what an insightful saying. It's clear that the words especially fit to me since this is the third time I write about this here. This blog is apparently not my diary, and more and more I get inclined to themes that naturally, instantly come up to my mind. It seems "Less Is More" theme can easily and repeatedly catch my mind, though I don't think I am a minimalist. I like this idea because it's true. Recently I've been trying to make my place a bit clearer. I got rid of some pictures and photos from the wall. All of a sudden I understand that I feel better looking at the blank wall. The new platform for imagination and cleansing of mind and brain emerged instead of pictures, photos and colors.
I seldom talk about my business here but here's to show some of my thoughts in work. I have clients and receive emails and calls every day. I try to get back to these inquiries or requirements as shortly as possible. It doesn't mean I am good at finishing my work fast. Sometimes it's not even a finish but a start of the conversation. But in any case I try to give my answer / feedback / deliverable little by little, and try not to hold my response even though I cannot provide right answer at once. What matters I think is the speed of communication. It's simply good to deal with issues while the recognition is fresh and clear. Dealing things while it's fresh, clear and small, is likely to easy. It's like always making tools and counters keep clean, organizing food, and clearing the kitchen while cooking.
I was looking at the traffic in the evening light. Cars, bicycles and bikes on the road, or jets and helicopters in the sky, (and if I could see river or sea, the boats on the water alike) were all with light and their movement looked like dynamic illumination. I was just wondering it could be brilliant and beautiful if the people walking in the street were also wearing light of their own and could join the wave of lights of vehicles. They may wear light in the shoelace, or as a headlight, or anywhere they like. Light of cars moves fast, and light of people moves slowly. The imaginary vision fascinated me much. (And I guess it also contributes to the traffic safety in the night, doesn't it?)
Beautiful. Black Panther is a masterpiece filled with every moment of entertainment, speed, and artistic perspective on visual arts and music. This movie is not only cool and breathtaking but also very human. It's like the movie itself has an identity, character and soul to speak up something, to motivate, to inspire us. Marvel Studio once again proved that comic hero movie can become a modern myth, just as Star Wars started the path and succeeded. This is a true successor of our age. Awesome.
As a pet, I have only owned several small goldfish in my childhood. I liked them very much but you cannot take goldfish to a walking. I never owned dogs or cats, and if I imagine I have one now, I would be able to spend happiest time with them while I am walking with them. My imaginary pet is likely to appear in outdoor and not in a house where I am supposed to sit on a couch together with them, to feed them in the kitchen, or to be welcomed (hopefully) at the entrance when I get home. Silly as it may be, but it's a fun to imagine that I have my wonderful pet and walk with them wherever I go.
I am enjoying my work but I agree Monday is not something that we welcome. A notion that a new week starts with many complicated tasks and works is not surely a healthy feeling, but work is inevitably complex and challenging. So I wonder, how about changing my mindset little bit to think that a week starts from Sunday, a week starts from holiday and be closed in holiday. The five days in the middle is for activity and challenge. How about making Sunday not "weekend" but "week opening"?
Once I feel I can communicate with my body, the next step I am learning is to have a trust in my body. As just one little example, in kickboxing training, I am not good at making pivot backward after kicking to turn back to the initial position. Partly because of the minor impact of injury, partly because my relatively weak stability of body axis, it's difficult for me to make it by one turn. But in the middle of training yesterday I found it was good for my performance, even if it wasn't always a success, to believe in I could do it. Trust in body is not to push nor burden it, but to facilitate it to move.
Through the process of taking care of my injury it is simply great to know the way to connect to my body. I've never understood what it would be like to "talk with your body" kind of thing and still need practice, but the experience means much to me. My problem was the extreme tension in the muscle so I needed to learn to soften it, stretch relevant muscles and approach joints to broaden its mobility. I also needed to change some movements in my daily life in order not to lighten the impact of the move that the waist had to be involved. On the other hand I needed to learn to cure the injury by using the muscle and joints, not by just leaving them in tranquil posture.
These proactive approach to my body and efforts to enhance the power of self-healing is what I've been lucky to learn through relatively light injury. From my experience I think it's safe to say that you can deliver message to your body (even if you cannot catch the feedback of the communication), and if you are to deliver such message as telling you are trying to cure or heal your body, the body will somehow understand the message and will send you back "thank you". It might be just my imagination, but it's really interesting to imagine my body has its own language and communication that I never be able to directly understand. It's still not easy to make my body feel happy, but it's a communication. So far I've learned that the body does appreciate rest and care.
So first of all I fell on ice and hit my lower back. In the moment when my feet slipped, reflexively I got my both arms on the ground to support. Inevitably the impact was huge. But I am rather thankful that I didn't hit my head, ankle, knees, or elbows. I just hit hard on my lower back and what mattered most was not the instant damage but the excessive tense in my muscle around the bruise. Bruise itself was almost nothing, which was cured within 2-3 days. But the heavy muscle tension caused by the impact and the pain afterwards, was the problem. I was confused first because I didn't feel I hit the tail bone. But it turned out that remaining pain was caused by the heavy muscle tense that led to poor movement of joint. And the tension was not only tied to the impact of bruise but also, naturally, it was due to the condition of whole body. I have been learning that muscle in each part of the body does not exist independently. Muscles in waist, hip, back, thigh, knee, foot, shoulder and neck are all connected. It's clear to me that if I was able to keep my muscles flexible and movable, the trouble could have been much smaller and lighter.
I learned the importance of care of my body. Care is absolutely indispensable like a sleep. Whatever I do in the day, work, talk, walk, training, travel, dance, kickboxing, or Taichi. I didn't realize it before the injury but I learned. Given the importance of the lesson, I even appreciate the damage was kept to the minimum.
Anyway I could have avoided to fell on ice if I was more cautious. I've been wondering what I should have done, in front of the very slippery ice covered with water on the slope. Maybe I should crawl on my hands and knees. It might not be the best idea but at least I could keep myself from falling. Or maybe I should take off my shoes and walk in socks? Maybe the best way is to spread sand over the ice because I remember in my hometown there is always a sandbox for driver's use in winter on the snowy, icy slope. Maybe coffee grounds will also work, won't it?
