Dr Seuss in Japan

Dear Friends,

I had a Child-Aid Piano Concert at a City Hall in the Tokyo metropolitan area tonight.

A friend of mine, an internationally renowned concert pianist played a modern piece of music written by Elliott Carter. I interviewed her, then led a large group talking with the audience of about 70 people. I read a picture book at the end asking the audience for a child-aid donation. We really had a special time together to enlarge our self having been shrunk more or less.

My helping activities are with young colleagues in Tokyo and colleagues in a base camp in MIYAGI now. Then we get into second stage to prevent ASD and PTSD from the first aid we had been engaging in. Many teachers and mothers are needed to help to know how they can be with their children and how and what they can tell their children.

My reading a picture book was a demonstration of "Reading Picture book Therapy" I am calling and telling people how it can work as a very curative method for such a time. I am going to make a simple manual as everyone, I mean layman (or women, italics mine), can do it. I tried how it works in a small group at the last town meeting and did it again in a large group. I am convinced it is surely effective and anyone can do it. Even children can do it each other and it can be good for elder people, too. I received some donations and much warm feelings from people about what I am doing and the planning of the second step activities. This is one of my ways of demonstrating feeling for people and myself in this hard situation. It is happiness for me to feel the warmth of such a warm people who shares love and dedicate mutual aid without sparing oneself.

The picture book I read tonight is "Oh, the Places You'll Go!" by Dr. Seuss. It is interesting that the translation into Japanese of the Japanese version seems to me Japanese like. It was emphasized rather Self not Ego. The modern music of Eliot Carter written in 1945, a piano sonata, seems to me conveying astonishingly a great harmony and strength of Mother Earth. So when I read the picture book by Dr. Seuss with my own translation done more straightforwardly it worked very well.

In this way, we are stepping forward.

Best wishes,

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