言われて(旦那から)腹の立つ言葉
ん～～～
我が家は仕事中心の生活なので
旦那と言うより…仕事場での相方の発言ですが
もしワシじゃったら…こうする！！！この言葉をよう言います…相方！！！
んじゃ…やってみれば！！！と言いたいのをぐっと飲み込むおばちゃんですが…
(￣Λ￣)ゞ んむっ…とする言葉ＮＯ．１です
もし…
たら…
やってみて…文句言え！！！
Simplify!
I read an interesting essay by Toshimi Horiuchi about the power of beauty in people's lives.
Our busy , high tech lives leave us no time
"to appreciate the spiritual beauties which the soul genuinely thirsts for," he writes.
Horiuchi's essay reminded me of something in America culture that goes way back : the longing for a simple life in the country.
One of the first Americans to express this ideal was Henry David Thoreau.
In Walden , he tells the story of why he decided to live in the woods and what his life there was like .
Walden was published in 1854 , long before our high tech age ,but even then Thoreau felt that most people were too busy and out of touch with themselves.
"Simplify , simplify!" he tells the reader.
Then through his own example , he shows how.
He goes to the woods , builds a small house , plants beans , and lives "deliberately."
In this way , Thoreau seems to find the kind of spiritual beauty Horiuchi writes of , both within himself and in the natural world around him.
As far back as I can remember , a simple life in the country has been one popular version of the American Dream.
In Japanese , "inaka" often has a negative meaning , especially when young people use it.
But "the country" is a place many Americans , young and old , long for.
Of course plenty of people wouldn't live anywhere except New York , for example , and lots of young Americans , like Japanese , can't wait to leave their small towns and move to big city.
But even so , there's always been a powerful urge for country life in the American consciousness.
American music is full of this urge.
From the classic "Home on the Range" to the popular "Country Roads," countless songs express the longing for a country home.
One of my favorites is a song by Judy Collins called "Innisfree."
In it , the singer goes to a place calls "Innisfree," builds a small cabin , plants some beans , listens to the sounds of water and crickets , and finds peace.
This song came out in 1971 , but the feeling is very close to Thoureau's.
In fact , it's based on a poem by W.B.
Yeats that was inspired by Thoureau's life in the woods.
This kind of life was also part of my family's dream.
When I was thirteen , my parents decided to move about thirty miles outside of Houston.
It wasn't exactly Innisfree , but we watched the stars at night , listened to crickets , planted a garden , and ate home baked bread and pies.
We still had to go into the city on weekdays for school
and work , so we could only feel the peace of country living on the weekends.
It wasn't simple enough , and eventually we moved back into Houston.
But I remember it as one of the happiest times of growing up.
In fact , within five years , I was back in the country.
This time there were no big cities nearby.
I spent two years in what I still think is the nicest part of the US: the beautiful green mountains of Vermont.
After visiting me there , my sister was hooked too.
She now lives in a house she built with the help of her friends , right in the middle of the Maine Woods.
She even has beans!
There seems to be something special about living in the country.
Maybe , like Thoreau , we know ourselves best when we know nature.
Or maybe the power of beauty that Horiuchi writes about is easier to feel when we slow down and simplify our lives.
I don't know , but whatever it is , "Oh , give me a home , where the buffalo roam..."