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I couldn't believe my eyes when I picked up newspaper on the first morning at my mother's, whom I visited after a year, in Kyoto, Japan last month.  My father, a scholar of French literature and philosophy, deceased ten years ago, was mentioned in the front-page column.  It was with the quote of Simone Weil, a French philosopher whose work my father translated into Japanese, about factory workers she chose to work with after quitting her teaching job: "The temptation to give up thinking altogether is the most difficult one to resist:one feels so clearly that it is the only way to stop suffering." (November 29, 2017, Asahi Shimbun)

Reading this column to be reminded of my father and, in fact, questions of work, family, life, mortality, and whether I took enough time recently to ponder what is really important in life, I couldn't help feeling that he knew when I was coming home.  He knew I still need his advice/guidance in life.  This episode may be a mere coincidence but I am a believer in synchronicity and I was more certain than ever that he's still with me and the rest of the family.  Thank you, otou-san (father).  This trip brought back so many memories of my past the entire time I was in Japan, probably more than usual.

"Man is a reed, the weakest of nature, but he is a thinking reed." - Blaise Pascal, French philosopher, writer, mathematician, physicist, inventor

It's time for holidays around the world.  I wish everyone good times with your loved ones and a joyous new year!

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