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6.4km

6.4km

12.1km

Kizuna

The news come from Hukushima almost everyday. The news has been reminding us that someone is working hard dealing with the situations on-site everyday. One day watching sunset and the ever-changing colors of sky while I was running, I wondered whether the workers have even a little bit of space in their mind to look up the sky and watch the sunset. 


New video of inside the power plants was released by the electric power company today. In a scene of inside the power plants, many workers in white special suits were moving quickly and strictly. 


Also in the clips, a letter of supporting message and one-thousand-cranes origami crafts wishing workers' safely returns to their home were displayed in the most visible place in the control center. In the letter with the message was a big red Japanese calligraphic character of 'Kizuna' which represents the bonds of people around the world.

Mistake

I made a big mistake today. I went to run in the evening. I started feeling pain in my knee soon after I started running. I check my running form. Still had pain in my left knee. I slowed down even more. Still had the pain in my left knee. I walked. 


I looked up the night sky. Feeling the pain of the mistake I made. I didn't want to feel sorry about it nor for myself. I started running again. I ran very fast as if I was running away from a chasing dog.


It's weired that I'm running very fast so easily, so relaxed. I'm not panting. I don't feel pain in my left knee anymore. I feel thankful that I can run like this. I feel peaceful. Maybe I just thought I might have made a mistake. Maybe I could learn something from this even if it was actually a mistake.


6.4km

Ring of Rainbow

This has been rainy weekend. My friend is participating half iron man race today. Wishing his best, I thought I'd do my part and I'd do my half marathon. I ran 21.6km. I usually go running in the morning or in the evening when the air is cooler and the sun is not high. I went around noon today instead, when it was supposed to be couple hours of clear sky between raining. 

Just 2 km away from where I was supposed to finish, I was crossing on the bridge. Approaching at the top of the bridge, I saw a bridge operator, outside of his operator's room, was looking up the sky and pointing his camera up into the sky. 

I looked up, then I saw a complete circular ring of rainbow around the sun in the middle of the sky covered by thin and wide clouds. I wouldn't have noticed it if I didn't see him, because the sun and the rainbow was above my head. I stopped and chat a little bit about it with him and I left. While I kept running back, I kept looking up once in a while to see the ring of the rainbow around the sun.

About 10 minutes later when I came back to where I parked my car, the ring of the rainbow was still there. It disappeared minutes later. 

Half Moon (5/10)

Yesterday, May 10 was half moon. The day with perfect balance. 

5km

Start

Two months has passed since the earthquake.

Japanese government started reviewing their energy policy. In previous plan, the country was aiming to increase the energy supply by nuclear plants from current 30% to over 50% by 2030. The new plan will promote more renewable energy such as solar, wind and biomass and encourage further energy conservation.

As part of the road to the recovery, the change for the future generation had begun.


6.8km

Riding updrafts

Rising up in the sky by leaving themselves to the force of nature. effortless, waste-less.


5km

I want to see miracle

We live on our fate. We have luck. Whether it’s good or bad, it gives us new challenges. Through the course of events, we are put to the tests.

How we respond to these challenges defines our future.

Miracle happens when more than one of our minds (or hearts) are synchronized.

18.0km

6.4km

5.7km

7.0km

5.0km

5.0km