４月１１日（月曜日）２０２２
数日前に地元のTさんが梨の枝を持ってきてくださり床の間に飾りました。白い美しい花です。Kさんからは両手一杯のスイセンの花をいただきました。年末の大雪でボッキリ折れて地面に横たわりそのまま放置してあった裏の桃の木の枝から可憐な淡い桃色の花が咲いていたのでそれも梨と一緒に壺の中へ。虫が入って傷んでいる桜の木もヒョロヒョロの枝が雪で折れていたのがかすかに繋がって花をつけていました。
戦争で無惨に街が破壊され呆気なく人命が失われる日々の様子を報道で見聞きする一方で、ダメだと思っていた枝が紙一重のところで水を吸い上げ花を咲かせる自然の生命力。言葉にならない気持ちでぼんやりとしています。
Local resident, Ms.T brought branches of pear for me, so I put them in the flower jar to decorate the alcove. The flowers are white and beautiful. Ms. K also brought an armful of daffodils. When we had heavy snow at the end of last December, one of the peach branches broke and it was left on the ground as it was. Yesterday I found many pale pink flowers at the top of the branches, so I cut some of them and put them into the same jar in the alcove. I also found some flowers at a broken branch of a cherry tree in the backyard which has already been damaged by some insects and the heavy snow which had also attacked the cherry tree. The broken branch was connected to the tree with thin bark.
Watching Youtube, I see many towns were destroyed miserably by the war in Ukraine and know an incredible number of lives were lost easily. On the other hand, I was amazed by the power of nature. Even broken branches absorbed water through the very thin bark and opened pretty flowers. I don't know what to say and stay silent.
