â€å“i Get Knocked Down but I Get Up Again Youã¢â‚¬â„¢re Not Ever Gonna Keep Me Downã¢â‚¬â

When I was thirteen, I was involved with a theatre company, turned into a night owl and stopped going to school. I came domicile at 1 AM, and so stayed up reading and watching former movies, and effectually 5 AM, turned the Television receiver on to spotter “I Beloved Lucy”, where I learned English from Lucy and Ricky. Then I stayed up for CBS Evening News with Dan Rather.  Well, because of the time difference, the evening hither was the morning in Japan. At outset, Dan Rather was speaking to me in Japanese.

There was a fourth dimension that instead of maxim, “That’south the manner it is” â€" he signed off past saying just i word: “Courage.” That was it. “Courage.” The Japanese didn’t know how to translate it, so the Japanese voice just said “KA-RAIJI”.

My first published commodity, near the Alaskan oil spill, was pretty much stolen from Dan Rather’s commentary. He taught me how to exist critical of authorization. I didn’t know what “environment” or “ozone” meant â€" until I saw an blitheness of the earth growing warm, ice melting, water levels ascension and Japan disappearing on the CBS news. The sight was horrendous plenty for me to cease using hair spray in the ’80s.

Oh, and Sting. He came to Nihon, and asked united states, then the richest people in the world, to help protect the Amazon rainforest. But then, to the balance of the world, he blamed the Japanese for killing trees for dispensable chopsticks. I learned that from Dan Rather, too. I once admired Sting for his mettlesome interruption away from the Police and for releasing a stupid titled album “The Dreams of the Bluish Turtle” â€" just after Dan told us what he’d said about us I lost my respect. I don’t like 2-faced people.

Dan had compassion â€" I didn’t know how much the Space Shuttle Challenger meant to the American people until I saw him watching the prototype of the explosion and most breaking downwardly.

Dan and I learned about the epidemic of AIDS and HIV together â€" and saw it through the life of Ryan White. He was a boy who got HIV through a blood transfusion. Dan and I were not happy about those ignorant people who were not nice to Ryan, especially at his schoolhouse. Ryan eventually was transferred to some other school where students were fully educated about HIV.

Dan told the states “Don’t care for this every bit someone else’s problem. It’s our problem.”

Every week, the death toll from AIDS was ascension. One morning, Ryan passed away. I woke my mom upwardly. Nosotros sabbatum in a front of the Goggle box, as Dan Rather reported the funeral. We listened to Elton’s “Candle in the Wind” and watched clips of Ryan’south last 4 years. We remembered Ryan growing upwardly fighting the affliction, and how we’d felt that somehow he would be all right.

My starting time trip to the U.s. was in 1992. The aeroplane was supposed to leave on Apr 30th. I was excited, and to attune my ear to the English language linguistic communication I turned on the Television receiver to watch Dan â€" non the circulate dubbed in Japanese but the one in English, in Dan’due south own voice.

There was a big trial that had something to do with a guy named Rodney King. I didn’t pay also much attention until I saw the headline “LA RIOTS” Dan told me “The airport and schools are closed. LAPD has established a curfew.”

People were firing guns and beating up one some other on the street. I watched a truck blocking an intersection and a man being dragged out of that truck

“Oh, my god.”

So even earlier the travel agent called, I knew my trip was cancelled. The Japanese government would not allow us to fly into LA.

A few months later, in the fall, I took that trip, fabricated friends, and returned to Nippon with plans to go dorsum to LA to alive permanently.

Then the Northridge earthquake striking!

I first saw it on the Japanese news, “LA was destroyed by the earthquake magnitude 6.vii.”

Most of my friends lived in Hollywood. Merely one Japanese daughter, Pea, lived in Sherman Oaks. I stared at the Television set. I saw a huge burn down burning downwardly an apartment complex, and the caption said “Sherman Oaks”

Oh, shit!

I chosen, and heard, “All circuits are decorated. Delight endeavor again.”

That night I stayed up, calling every hr, and waiting for Dan. Finally he was in that location telling me that in Los Angeles all the electricity was out, and the gas was off for fright of fires.

Watching familiar places on the news I tried Pea again and again.

Three days later, I reached Pea. She was all right, and LA revived more quickly than anticipated.

I moved to LA that year.

“Oh, America is dangerous. Why you are moving there? They detest the Japanese”

“You don’t speak any English. How will you survive?”

I felt more like an American, because I grew upwards watching Dan Rather.

The Japanese seemed less human than Americans for some reason.

Americans â€" alpine and beautiful. Japanese â€" short and mousy. Americans bold and mettlesome. Japanese â€" nosotros wait others to read our minds, and when they don’t, we go resentful. Nosotros don’t similar to stand up out. We alive in a harmony as a group.

But there was Yoko Ono.

She was the commencement oriental woman to show her blank ass for a cause. If you put hers next to John Lennon’due south, y'all got her message “State of war is not a pretty matter â€" you’d better terminate it right now, or we will plough effectually!”

I discovered that in America being an oriental is a damn good matter.

In Nippon, when I was cranky and didn’t experience like talking to anyone, people called me rude and snobby. In America, I’m “shy”.

In Nihon, I was moody. Here I’m sensitive.

In Japan, I was selfish, bossy and loud. Here, I’m a “go-getter.”

On the other hand, there is the stereotype. Americans view oriental women like lost 1950s housewives. Demure and kind, she takes care of her man, and before y'all tell her what to practice, she has taken care of information technology. She’ll do what her man says, e'er please him.

I don’t exercise that.

I am a workaholic. In Nihon, beingness a workaholic is a birthright â€" hither, it’due south a affliction.

By the time I did motility here, around the Monica Lewinsky era, I was an adult and I finally began to fully understand English.

Every night at 6:thirty PM I listened to Dan, trying to make sense of the fact that President Clinton was beingness tried for sticking a cigar in that willing young woman’s vagina. Dan tried to explicate to me that Clinton had lied under oath, but I withal didn’t get why they were making such a big bargain out of it.

Later on the 2000 election, my mom called me “I heard the news that they were laughing about the president and vice president being a Bush and a Dick. Why is that so funny?”

I explained it to my mom that Americans love genital jokes, and so said, “Mom, it’s Ballot with an ‘ L’.”

Over the years, Dan softened a lot. I watched him afterwards September xi, breaking down and holding Dave Letterman’s hand. The but manner for him to allow out his anger was simply to cry.

Then came the 2004 election. During that fateful Nov night, I was with Dan.

At first, I thought my wish had come truthful. Dan told me things were going well for Kerry.

As Dan said, “The presidential race is swinging like Count Basie.”

Just Dan had spoken too soon and at present he had an omelet on his face. The race was too close to call. Dan added, “The race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.”

Then all those states on the map started turning red, and he said, “Do yous hear that knocking…President Bush‘s re-election is at the door.”

I stayed up with Dan.

“No i is saying that George Bush-league is non going to win the election, and if you had to bet the double-wide, you’d take to bet that he’d win.”

So the Ohio problem showed upward. “We need Billy Crystal to ‘Analyze This’,” Dan said.

Dan was non trying to be funny. He is merely poetic.

“Information technology is like a swan, with every plumage above the water settled, just under the h2o paddling like crazy,” Dan said.

Even as Kerry and Edwards were preparing their concession speech, Dan offered me hope. “In some ways, George Bush’s pb is as thin equally November water ice.”

And at 4 a.grand. he said, “This race is shakier than cafeteria Jell-O.”

Then, Dan left to rest and I turned off the TV, promising the whatever-American-gods-available that if he permit Kerry win I would remain chaste for the next 4 years.

Well, Bush-league won the election and I won the erection.

Later that day, I went into a kind of low, I couldn’t go laid. I was not able to believe how stupid people could be to really vote for a moron. Practice we have a future? What are we working and then hard for? Who are we fighting for? Every time I saw that Baby Bush-league face up, I felt powerless. I think TV is the weapon of mass destruction. Look at how it is making united states of america fat, lazy and encephalon-dead.

I didn’t know whom to turn to. Dan Rather was no longer the face of the CBS Evening News. The funny white man who was my window to America for almost xx years was kicked out.

In January 2007, I was in a bar in New York Metropolis when a friend of mine told me “isn’t it exciting, Obama is running for President.”

Heady? A black man running at this crucial time is exciting? I mean at least he doesn’t wait similar Count Chocula like the Mr. Ketchup guy did, merely he is blackness! We are not really a color-blind nation yet. We cannot accept a gamble this time. C’monday, democrats, go your act together, I thought.

When Obama vanquish Hillary, I gave in. Maybe this guy can make it. To start with, he is non actually black. He is HALF blackness. He is a Hawaian. I mean everyone LOVES Hawaii. Plus racism doesn’t apply to good-looking people. If Rodney Rex looked like Denzel, the LA Riots would never have happened.

My involuntary celibacy may have worked. On Nov 4, 2009, at 8 PM, Barak Obama got the election and Michelle Obama got the erection. Obama whacked the Bush era.

What elected President Obama was the collective courage to believe that we deserve better. But now, one year later, he is facing collective expectations of those who elected him.

And so I got it. It took more than 20 years. Dan Rather was reminding united states of america of what’s within of united states; that we all have the pioneering spirit in our blood, every one of us, from the Indian who crossed water ice sheets to accomplish these shores to those who fled condemnation, poverty, and state of war, to those like me who came simply to discover something new.

Dan was reminding united states of america of what we have done and what we can do; that we tin even so believe in possibility. Yeah, times are tough at present, but considering the speed of growth of this country, I want to believe this Bush-league thing was just some other growing pain. I think we tin still go on…with a scrap more COURAGE.

　　　Airbrushの世界では老舗と知られるDINAIR社。　早くも　コンサルタントとしてつとめ始めてからï¼'年も経ちました。

ロスにいらっしゃった際にはぜひお立ち寄りください。　現在日本では認定講師は約ï¼'０名飲みですが　ã"れから　どã‚"どã‚"ダイネアー商å"ã¯åºƒãŒã£ã¦ã„くã"とでしょう！

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元々ãƒ"ジネスアドバイザーでのお仕事だったのですが　商å"ã‚'知らなã'ればいã'ないと、ワークショップã‚'ï¼'年前に講ç¿'したのがきっかã'でいまやダイネアーのおつきになってしまいました。

先月のエミー賞では　ï¼'５０名のスタッフã‚'ï¼'時é–"で仕上ã'るという大仕事！　世界中からダイネアーアーチストが集まりました！　

エミー賞バックステージで。　

劇製作ã‚'成功させる秘訣はã"存知の通り　Command Freak になるã"とです。

とはいっても　コントロールしたいからするのではなく　自分の頭のなかにç"Ÿãã¦ã„ã‚‹ãƒ"ジョンと会話できるのは自分だã'なのでどうしても　コミュニケーションがよほど上手でない限り　一人芝居のワンマン劇製作になってしまうã‚"ですよね。

しかしï¼'０年以上ハリウッドでアメリカ人に囲まれて仕事ã‚'していると"å½"てになるやつがいないから無理矢理仕事ã‚'団å"¡ã«ãŠã—つã'る、”という　手法ã‚'身につã'ました。　アメリカ人はいわないと何もしてくれないので　何度もいやみたらしく言います。　しかし、日本人のメンバーは大違い。アリガト会はほã‚"とうにありがたい。

先月の第９回ï¼'０分劇コンテストのæ‰"ち上ã'の料理は豆吉とï¼'りで　準備し、劇場に運ã‚"でからはメンバーに劇の公æ¼"中に　外の駐車場で並べてもらい　劇終了とともに　お料理の載っているテーブルã‚'運ã‚"でもらいました。

お料理はどã‚"なに忙しくても、私にとってのセラãƒ"ーです〜。

材料です。アメリカは何でもおおきい！！！

サンドイッチロールとモザレッラチーズサラダ。夏にはぴったり！

メキシコ料理のタキトス、エンãƒ'ナダ、そして中辛ソーセージãƒ'スタです。

やはりデザートはï¼"段重ねで！　いつもリーダになってくれるグレッグには今回は舞台æ¼"出もチャレンジしてもらいました。

お久しぶりです。　無事に　”瞼の母”　（アリガト会）旗揚ã'も終え、Airbrush make upward のワークショップ、そして事務所の引っ越しも無事におえ　XX歳の誕ç"Ÿæ—¥ãƒ'ーティーの準備ã‚'しているとã"ろです。

カルフォルニアでは”冬ã"もり”ではなく　”夏ã"もり”の準備ã‚'します。　遊ぶのがだいすきなアメリカ人はいい天気が続く夏ä¼'みã‚'精一杯満喫するために　５月と６月に仕事ã‚'詰め、７月と８月のバケーションにそなえる様です。　

ですから、今月はコーチング、コンサルテーションが多めにはいり　新しいホームオフィスも　迷路のように箱がつã‚"であり、昨夜ダーリンに　”明日、お客さã‚"がくるからきちã‚"としておいてね、”と警å'Šã‚'だされ　朝方ï¼"時まで掃除ã‚'していました。

日本のç"Ÿå¾'の皆さã‚"、ã"めã‚"なさい。　テキストはちょっとお待ちください。　”キチンとæ¼"技法ã‚'æ•™ç§'書にして夏までに送るわよ、”なã‚"て偉そうにいっていた私は自分ã‚'知らなすぎました。　ã"ちらの”夏ã"もり”のあいだにまとめて秋には出版します。

では、エアーブラシのダイネアーに出勤してきます。（土曜日なのに、む〜） ただいまwww.dinair.jpã‚'たちあã'ています〜。

やはりã"のような事態に私たちになにができるのだろうと考えたとき、やはり“舞台公æ¼"”なã‚"ですよね．ですから、ない頭ã‚'メンバーで一ç"Ÿæ‡¸å'½ã‚つめて、　超過激æ¼"劇プロジェクトã‚'始めました．

まず、朝の８時に６人の作家集合。　ï¼"つのバスケットから　ï¼'つの場所、ï¼'人の役者、ï¼"つの小é"å…·ã‚'くじ引きし、ï¼'ï¼'時までに書き上ã'ます．
そして、ï¼'ï¼'時半に役者集合。　ï¼'ï¼'時からï¼"時までリハ、ï¼"時から６時まで舞台稽古、７時に公æ¼"という勢いに任した企ç"»ã§ã™ï¼Ž
先週はじめて試してみたのですが皆さã‚"ガンバって６作無事に書き上ã'、役者も暗記し、７時に公æ¼"ã‚'成し遂ã'ました．

やればできるもã‚"なのですねー。

ですからまた来月のï¼'５日に開催します．　是非、遊びにきてくださいね．

宮城県では，平成ï¼'ï¼"年（ï¼'０ï¼'ï¼'年）東北地方太平洋沖地震に係る義援é‡'に関する受付çª"口ã‚'下記のとおり設置。

現在，宮城県が開設している口座でも，外貨ã‚'å…¥é‡'するã"とは可能です。
（外貨で送é‡'しても，日本の口座に入é‡'時には円に替えられます。）

「宮城県災害対策本部　七十七銀行県庁æ"¯åº—　普通預é‡'　５５ï¼'５５８ï¼'」の口座に入é‡'する際には，

海外のé‡'融機関において，下記の項目ã‚'記載する必要があります。

銀行英文名称：The 77 Bank,Ltd.
スイフトコード：BOSSJPJT
æ"¯åº—名・住所：KenchoBranch

住所については，宮城県庁と七十七銀行県庁æ"¯åº—は，同じですので，
「宮城県仙台市é'è'‰åŒºæœ¬ç"ºä¸‰ä¸ç›®ï¼˜ç•ªï¼'号」ã‚'海外での，
住所表記に直して下さい。

受取人口座番号：Account No.ï¼'０６-５５ï¼'５５８ï¼'
口座名称：Miyagiken Saigai Taisaku Honbu
七十七銀行県庁前æ"¯åº—の電話番号は，０ï¼'ï¼'－ï¼'ï¼'ï¼"－ï¼"ï¼"５ï¼"　となっております。

また，送é‡'目的については，「災害義援é‡'」と標記して下さい。

なお，海外から義援é‡'の送é‡'にå½"たっては，手数料が発ç"Ÿã—ますので，ã"留意願います。

地震が起きたのがé‡'曜午後。　学校にいた子供é"は津波警報が届き早速に避難するã"とができたが、仕事に出ていた人たちや家でゆっくりしていた人たちにはそうはいかなかったようだ．

いま、避難している子供é"にはï¼'度とç"Ÿã¿ã®è¦ªã«ã€€â€ã‚ˆããŒã‚"ばった”といわれるã"と、”ばかもの”と愛あふれる目でしかられるã"と、そしてハグ、抱かれるã"とがない子がいるのã"と思うと、悲しくなる．何かã‚'してあã'なã'ればいã'ない。

すã"し落ち着いたら子供é"にゆっくり本が読める余裕ã‚'あたえてほしい。　想像力ã‚'養えば、時é–"や場所、肉ä½"ã‚'ã"えてどã‚"な人とも逢って会話するã"とができる．

辛い現実はよく夢ã‚'壊してしまいがちだ。

だから、私は崩壊された学校再建の際の　“図書室フッッッッカアツ”（カタカナだと力強いと思ったので．．）にお手伝いしたい．

”ToShowCan" と（図書館とかã'て）プロジェクトは名付ã'、ホームページも木曜の夜には立ち上ã'られると思う．

資é‡'集めの一端として　www.7japaneselessons.comの収益、またアクセント矯正のクラス収益すべてã‚'ã"のプロジェクトに口切りとして募é‡'ã‚'する．　いつまでかとは、自分の暮らしが苦しくなるまで、å'¨ã‚Šã«è¿·æƒ'ã‚'かã'ない程度。

すっっっっっã"おおい幸運な私はã"れくらいしても河原乞食にはならないと思う．いや、河原乞食になったらほã‚"との役者だ！

余裕とよã'いな裕と書く．心／スãƒ"リットに余裕があるから　物資／マテリアルはぎりぎりになってしまうのかしら．デンジャーにç"Ÿãã¦ã—まいます．

（マイケルちゃã‚"、豆吉さã‚"、チャーリーちゃã‚"、わがままな私のサポート、本å½"にありがとう。　ã"めã‚"ね、ブルドーザーみたいな性格で．迷æƒ'かã'ます。。。）

去年のï¼'ï¼'月松島湾で写真ã‚'æ'®ã‚Šã¾ãã£ãŸãƒžã‚¤ã‚±ãƒ«ã¡ã‚ƒã‚"。　ゆっくり、肉眼で楽しもうよ、と思ったが、いまやプロの写真家に松島湾ã‚'とってもらって良かったと思う．

被災地の皆様には心よりお見舞いç"³ã—上ã'ます。
そして犠牲者の方々には　å"€æ‚¼ã®æ„ã‚'捧ã'ます。

日本国リーダーである者の国æ°'受ã'のためのæ"¿æ²»ãƒ'フォーマンスと遅い対応のため多くの被災者が自然以外から被害ã‚'負っています。 時é–"は待ってくれませã‚"． 自分のエゴはã'し、国æ°'ã‚'先に考えてください．

æ"¿æ²»å®¶ã¯å›½æ°'の下でæ"¯ãˆã‚‹ã¹ãè€…。ã"のような緊急時期は国æ°'ã‚'まとめ、他国に頭ã‚'下ã'助ã'ã‚'求めにいってください。　批判はしたã'ればあとですればいい、でも　"天”の意ã‚'自分なりに解釈し犠牲者の家族の気持ちも考えずに、ã"の声明は横柄さにも限度がある。　心なしのリーダーに日本のような強靭な国æ°'ã‚'まとめるã"とはできない．

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