（琉球新報12月3日）
大谷選手が活躍するアメリカのプロ野球チーム、ロジャースのロバーツ監督が沖縄系2世、と言う事で、那覇市や県が特別栄誉賞を授与するのらしい。
全米プロ野球の優勝で、監督が生まれた那覇市にもスポットがあたり、世界的知名度が上がった事への謝意なのらしい。
そうする事でさらに那覇市や沖縄に世界が注目し、不条理な問題への理解と協力が深まると共に、よりポジティブな世界平和を目指したいとの大義名分があるようだ。
好ましいことだと、那覇市長や沖縄県知事の幹部が推挙したのだろう。
沖縄系の著名人はいわば沖縄アンバサダーになる。
戦争があり、その奈落の底から立ち上がってきた人々は、コンタクトゾーンhttps://www.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~contactzone/repository/001/tanaka.pdfを生き抜いてきた。苦水も甘水もあつたし、今に続く。
市民レベルの連帯に繋がるだろうか。
（琉球新報 12月4日）
県民栄誉賞へ！ロバート監督のお母さまが宮古島出身ということが、灌漑深かった。著名なアメリカ人詩人のスナイダーの三番目の奥様Uehara Masaさんも宮古島出身の女性だった。神戸大学を卒業し、お茶の水女子大学の大学院で勉学を続ける予定だった優秀な女性で、お二人の息子さんがいるのですね。
琉球・沖縄の歴史の中で宮古島出身は本島の人々から差別を受けてきた歴史を持っている。しかしアララガマ魂を持つ島の人々の活躍は目覚ましい。
琉球王府時代からの人頭税差別が260年間も続いた。しかし、宮古島の人々の強さは、沖縄のあらゆる方面で、政財界、教育、文化、スポーツ、医療と闊達に県の人材として活躍しているようだ。他界した宮古島出身の詩人を通して、宮古や八重山の歴史を意識するようになった。琉球史を学び直したと言ってもいいのかもしれない。
歴史はアウフヘーベンする。コンタクトゾーンの多様性と可能性があり続ける。
（もし、この見解に間違いがあれば、指摘してほしい！）
"Gary Snyder's Third Wife: Masa Uehara ( マサ上原 )"
Many factors influence the writings of Gary Snyder, whether it relates to nature, Buddhism, or the people he becomes acquainted with in his life. Through his third ex-wife and writer Masa Uehara, along with his two children, Kai and Gen, they have come to play a significant role in Snyder's writing, especially through his poetry. After exchanging vows at the edge of Suwanose-jima's crater, on August 6, 1967, Masa Uehara and Gary Snyder both began a new journey together with the blessings from their peers and the natural elements surrounding them. When Kai Snyder was born in the year 1968, Gary Snyder wrote various poems under Regarding Wave, which was later published in 1970. Most of Snyder's poems within Regarding Wave each presented symbolism, incorporating Kai and Masa Uehara as various aspects of nature and life such as dolphins or waves. Also Snyder began to place emphasis on family into his writing, and the joys of how much light was brought into his world. After moving back to the US and settling down in the Sierra Nevada mountains along with Kai and Gen, born in 1969, he continued to incorporate his daily life and environment to his poetry, speaking of his observations and again, including symbols of nature to represent all of his family. Within the poetry from Turtle Island, later published in 1974, it embraced Snyder's views towards family life and how ingenuous the lives of his wife and children were to him. Like Regarding Wave, he combined observation with a touch of symbolism to his poetry, again relating back to the inspiration of his family. As time passed, the children had grown up, and Masa and Gary's marriage had come to a close after twenty-two years; by 1989, the two had divorced and parted their ways. As for Gary Snyder, this period in his life has become very innovative towards his writing and career. It allowed for him to gain more of an angle towards a new way of looking at life and nature, which continues to be depicted in his writings.
