I am not a native English speaker and my English is at the beginner level, so writing in English is not easy, but I have decided to write articles in English only on Hive from now on. Until recently, I used to write only in Japanese in the japanese community or in both Japanese and English, but I have decided to do so because there is a limit to what I can write. It is easier to write only in English.
Nowadays, there are excellent translators such as DeepL translator and Google translator, which are very convenient.
Recently I had a hard time visiting my relatives. I live in Hachiman, Sendai City, but due to climate change, it is hot all over Japan. My relative's house is located in Senmaya Town, Ichinoseki City, Iwate Prefecture, which is north of Sendai, but the heat is not much different from Sendai. Moreover, under this scorching sun, we climbed up a steep mountain path, unchanged from the past, to visit the graves of our ancestors at the top of the mountain. The next day, I had a light headache and could not attend the interment of ashes ceremony. I am still feeling sluggish and have been lying down all day. It might be heat stroke. I looked online about the interment of ashes ceremony and found out that we can have the interment of ashes ceremony anytime. If I were a mourner, I think I would hold the interment of ashes ceremony during a cooler time of the year so that no one gets sick.
That is why the two days I spent at my relative's house made me think about many things.
The photo is the garden of my relative's house.
