The music I used to listen when I was teenage that was Jazz always ,today I got shock to hear about news of Freddie Hubbard past away, I loved Blue Note mostly John Coltrane and Miles Davis everyday my life was with Jazz music. I couldn't stop the sounds all the time around me. Miles Davis's sound was so cool, and John Coltrane with McCoy Tyner ,I loved his piano,and Bill Evans with Chet Baker , Ron Carter his bass I loved it, Herbie Hancock's piano,Art Blaky's drams,Montgomery's guitar sounds, so much memories of my teenage .

Once I went to Miles Davis's concert in Japan it was so amazing I couldn't believe that to be his live concert then it became at last live in Japan for his life that was also shocked.

That is old time for me I thought so now but to hear about great Jazz musician's news is remind my memories with plenty of Jazz sounds and melodies, age which I spent time with it.

Winter night

When we got off the car at night we saw stars were so beautiful in the sky ,my daughter was just stand and we looked up the night sky ,in while I saw star fall I just make a wish happiness for my sons and my daughter. I thanks for life and time I spend with my daughter watching stars we feel beautiful.

She said "very cold !we have to get in home ".

At Christmas my sons will come to home and New year too, they are busy for work till end of the year.

Sunset on Ngong hill

I remember about sunset in Nairobi when I saw it now, We used see every evening beautiful sunset was over the Ngong Hill ,my kids were still small , we were enjoy to see beautiful sunset and plenty of stars in the sky at night.

In Kenya the place where we lived called "Karen " name was from Karen Buruxen author of book " Out of Africa" it is also famous as movie , we lived near the " Karen Buruxen Museum".I was visited that garden on sunday with my kids ,Museum's garden was very beautiful and sometimes we could meet some Japaneaese turists there.

And in 1984 there was making movie of " Out Of Africa " in Nairobi ,that time my son was not yet born means I was not mother yet, some of our friends played that movie as extra.I didn't realized yet what kind of movie they were going to play .

Later when we came back to Japan with my first baby in 1985 December at Christmas , we went watch that movie at theater we surprised there are Robert Redford role playing, I didn't know that but my husband said "this is that movie we played as extra in Nairobi", then we found there were some of our friends Alonso and Vinsent just one second and my husband too in just one second we could see them on the screen.

That is really precious memory with friends of our young age, they were Rwandese and they were really good friends ,one of our friend Alonso is living Cicago now sometimes telephoned me few years ago and I could talked Marsia who was my neighbour for few month in Burundi a mother of my husband's school friend ,when I met her she wanted flee from bad situation in Burundi there was already problem of interahamue threatened her tribe it was 1991,she is also Rwandese in Burundi who were exiled for more than twenty years same as other Rwandese.Now she is living Cicago, she said me on phone "there is no scare any more but missing my country."

Now some of Rwandese were repatriated but some were doesn't go back to their country because of sad history of their country. One of our friend Vincent who married French lady he and his wife were also very good friends of us now he lives in France and he called his two younger sisters to France , he has five children same age as my sons and daughter. And one of our friend Bosco is living in Kigali Rwanda with other friends .

Two of our Rwandese friends they came to visit us one day in Japan about ten years ago, last time in Nairobi when they saw my kids were still young around 5 , 4, and 2 it was last we met and it was before the war in Rwanda,then about 8 years later they came to learn about volunteer work in Japan and they met my kids were grown up to teenager they were so glad to see my children so much .Then they returned to Rwanda to try to build up their country from damage of their country's sad hitory.

I thought they are so brave that to looking future of their country, it is not easy to wipe out deep grief from mind.

We had very good time when we were young our memory in Nairobi there was peace and dreams that time was nobody imagine such a terrible things happen to in their country Rwanda, after that we lived each way, different country and living very far but our memory is still as young we were , and friends as soul still now . They are people who I've met how kindly, simple and very honesty I can say goodness people they are in my life.

But it is memory now.. sometimes I remember it, the time when we were young which we spend time together we had dreams as young we were.

Breathing shining from star in evening

This season evening is coming earlier and then sunset is sometimes making very colorful view for us ,east and west .I was surprised to see white color mountains were changing color in pink in east side and it's changing to color purple then becoming to dark ,west side we can see orange, light blue and dark blue ,then we looked find first star in the dark sky ,it was so shinning in the sky .My daughter said very beautiful ! When I'm off day I like to see sunset phenomenon,it is all the time show us different beauty , at last we say always " so beautiful! ! ! " and then " let's go home ".

If my off day is not cloudy or not rainy day we are lucky to find beautiful sunset ,and then we feel happy what we could see phenomenon in the sky, it's just beautiful and shining star in evening is make refresh our heart or give us natural power ? with breathing beauty ?,I feel so...

Shining triangle with stars and crescent moon

This evening my daughter asked me to go to supermarket and then when we are driving we saw shining Venus and Jupiter with crescent moon in the sky, it was very beautiful ! we surprised .

I just imagine bible and when Jesus was born they saw same as like this ? I felt something lucky or things will happening good luck. And it was really rare chance for me because at that time usually I 'm still working but I left work earlier today and if my daughter didn't ask to me to go out in evening, we saw shining stars and crescent moon makes triangle . Later I took camera to take photos but it was too late , moon changed color orange and moved so down.

But really I felt today was lucky day that we could see in the sky so beautiful shining stars and crescent moon . Once in life ? might be so .... that's why it was very lucky , and I was glad that I could see it with my daughter,looked up the sky and then we said " So beautiful ! " .It was very mysterious.