May is an interesting month.

It makes your mind and body feel lighter as feather,
brings you laughter, and even fills you with a new hope.
It makes you want to share your joy with others.
It is perhaps much springier than April with certain throb.

In Japan, the month of March is the graduation season.
We will exchange many goodbyes – many smiles, many tears.

Then from April, some will continue to the next school or to start working.
April is the time to adapt newness – renewal, reborn, restart are definitely a part of it.

Some may need to reacquaint himself to the new commuting schedule and route.
Some may need to wake up earlier than before or stay up later than before.
Some may have a hard time picking the clothes to work.
Some may need to memorize 50 people in one time!

Too many things, too little time
Who said that? It’s so true!
The April will be gone before you know it.

Then, it’s May.

Going through the entire April embracing newness,
“a freshman” begins to feel comfortable just enough to look around and
even feels grown old just enough to talk like the guy next to him.
Then, he finds himself a small, but his precious, own “pace” and “time”
without knowing the beat won’t let him slow down until a tune ends,
without knowing the tune will bring him another tune to play….

The cycle, indeed.

物事には終わりがあり、その後には始まりが追いかけています。
ものが壊れれば、買い換えるし、
卒業すれば、新生活がその後に控えているし、
なんだか知らないけれどひとつのことが終わっていて、
知らないうちに新しいことが始まっていた、なんてことだってあるでしょう。
（そして、ああ、あの時あれが終わったのは、このためだったんだ！
なんてひざを打ちたくなるような瞬間もあるかもしれないですし。）

ワタシに至っては、そうですねー、、、
不思議なもので、一旦、人間ふっきれると
周囲にそのふっきれ具合が伝わるのか、
急に物事が回りだすようで
連鎖反応とも言えるかもしれないです。
色々な「新しい」に出合ったり、「新しい」が出来たり、始まったりしていて、
とりあえず流れに身を任せてみたりするのです。

、、、とこんなことを書きながら言うのもなんですが、今のワタシ、焼き魚が食べたい気分かも。

支離滅裂にて候。

Thursday, May 6
NB Lounge
from 7:30 to 11PM
No Cover, No Minimum

Mamiko Taira (vocal)
Toru Dodo (piano)

Monday, May 10
NB Lounge
from 7:30 to 11PM
No Cover, No Minimum

Mamiko Taira (vocal)
Akiko Tsuruga (piano)

NB Lounge:
111 E56th Street between Park and Lex
(at the Lombardy Hotel)



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