I am beginning to notice that even though my days are full and filled with many smiles, they appear to have wings and fly swiftly past me into yesterday.
Hitomi and I have had full calendars and it seems we never could get quiet moments to coincide with the others. My computer stood quietly in the corner, unused except for business files. Quiet evenings that I had were spent with my brother in the family restaurant or occasionally I'd go to the club.
But March finally came and Hitomi & I got some time to leave the city. Nakagusuku is a place I have never been to, yet it was a place she loved as a child and so that's where we run off to. As I looked at her I feel there was some reliving of childhood memory as she walked along familiar steps but to me it was a new place and my eyes were everywhere. There is a broken castle high on the hill that has seen 700 springs pass by and just wandering along its paths by the broken walls and arched doorways you can immerse yourself into the history of 'Ryukyu' and feel the ghosts as they walk by you. The view is spectacular and in viewing the distance and the green and listening to silence interrupted only by birdsong allows me to appreciate a strange blanket of peace surround me that is unavailable in the city.
To soon it to passes into yesterday and we come home.
I have taken extra days and travel to stay at my fathers house.
I cannot have free time and not see him because it is too rare that I am free these days.
A sad reflection of the life I lead I suppose.