"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. " Eleanor Roossevelt Welcome to The Lady in The Spotlight for January 23, 2008. Today's Lady with the great look, great, interests, great heart, and great service hails from the Land of The Ring Sun. She is a woman, wife, mom, and poet with a heart for love of art and the love of people and our beloved Planet Earth. Today's Lady is Takako. |
| Interview with Takako |  LADY: Where did you get your caring heart?
Takako: I think the birth of my two kids gave me that. Becoming a mother helps women better truly.
Lady: Who modeled caring for you and has been your greatest inspiration for life?
Takako: Mother Teresa, I respect her a lot.
Lady: What is your life mission?
Takako: One thing is writing poems. I would like to express how important our usual lives are. Even if nothing special, there are a little miracle here and there. I trust it naturally. One another thing is making a donation for children in Africa. I pray peace all over the world.
Lady: What is that thing greater than yourself that you are committed to?
Takako: I join UNICEF monthly support membership. It gives me the chance to make my second life misson come true.
Lady: What do you sense is the greatest need among people where you live and people across the Planet Earth?
Takako: It's very simple. I think loving ourself is the greatest need among people. Most of our sadness around the world causes from the lack of narcisism(in a good meaning), in my opinion.
Lady: If you had the power to change three things going on in the world right now, what would you change and why?
Takako: No more War. No more poverty. No more global warming.
As for the global warming, now the environment of the earth is in the critical situation. We, poets need the natural beauty of our mother. If not, what kind of things we can write...especially, Japanese ancient poets shared joy with nature and wrote poetry. I follow this great guidance as a Japanese poet.
No more poverty and war. Imagine if your kid die soon when she/he are born. Can't you stand this terrible situation? Regretably, it is taking place in reality world somewhere. My wish is the happiness for mothers all over the world, 'cause I know how precious our kids are.
Lady: What is your sense of the why of the conflicts between adult women and men, people of different ethnic groups, people of different economic groups, or just people of different social or gender preferences?
Takako: In my sense, I always tend to treat people equal. Luckily, I have many friends all over the world. In short, we all are different from others. Our DNA is not the same, right?
I try to enjoy our each difference in my life.
I know everyone agree with my sense. Some people loves to conflict with such small things. They need their status as a hero or heroine. However, if they love themselves, they don't need their status at all, loving ourself means "selfless" in short.
Lady: Who is your current greatest living influence and why?
Takako: All friends in this myspace.com. I'm a Japanese common woman, not young, not attractive, not gorgeous...only I love writing. 1 year ago, I began writing poems. At first, no one knew me at all. Gradually, freinds kindly informed about me as a poet in their page. Besides, they are always with me, good or bad. Their comments hearten me, and give enough power and energy for me to contine writing, even if my English is "broken".
Also, writing gives me another chance to know the importance of my family more and more.
Lady: What are your recommendations for families with children?
Takako: My recomendation is "being with kids" sharing joys together. That is my basic policy between I and my kids.
Lady: How do you process all the human violence and natural disasters taking place all over the world?
Takako: As for natural disasters, now I work in the company for the better environment for earth as an accountant. Working hard there is my one of my process against that.
About the human violence, I hope my poems contribute to reduce that. It also happens when they deny their existance in their lives.
Lady: What are you living for? What do you hope for yourself, your family, your community, and for humanity?
Takako: I'm living for "love". I hope "smile" for everyone!
Lady: What is your sense of what the future holds?
Takako: That is Eternal PEACE. I trust our original ability named "love". It gives us the victory against poverty, war, global warming, confilction with small things, the human violence, natural disasters, and any kind of difficulty in now! |
| Garth Brooks sings a song called Unanswered Prayers when he remembers a woman he loved and wanted when he was in high school so bad he hurt inside. Years later, he saw her and was thankful his prayers had gone unanswered. His fantasy was gone.
Earlier today, I thought of others like you and me, I am sure are thankful things didn't go their way. First, Emily (not her real name) was on her way to Guyana to join family members of The People's Temple. Running late, she missed her plane. Disgusted and disappointed, news arrived to Emily that members of the People's Temple in Jonestown Guyana had all participated in a mass suicide. Emily was thankful for unanswered prayers.
Second, Jerry (not his real name) was at war in Vietnam. One morning before sunrise while sleeping in a bunker with his unit, Jerry heard his wife's voice say, "Get up and go outside."
He got up and walked out. As soon as he cleared the bunker, a bomb hit it and killed everybody inside. He fell to his knees and later put in a call to his wife to let her know he was OK.
Another time, Jerry's on a helicopter mission with his team. He hears his wife's voice say, "Lean Forward." As he leans forward, the soldier next to him is hit. Later, Jerry falls to his knees and then calls his wife.
After Vietnam, Jerry continues his federal government service. On April 19, 1995, Jerry wakes up a bit frustrated with his wife because he has over slept. All she could say was she believed she should let him sleep a little longer that morning. Jerry gets up, gets dressed, and gets on his way to work still frustrated because he will be late.
One block from work Jerry hears an explosion. The ground shakes. The Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City has been bombed. Jerry immediately returns home to hold his wife.
Today, I invite you to join me in taking time to give thanks for unanswered prayers and not getting the many things we wanted that were not in our. I am thankful for you and the privilege to connect with you this way. You are loved and very much appreciated.
Live Well and Love Well My Beautiful Friends and Loved Ones Like You Are Running Out Of Time. You Really Are. From The Editor's Blog January 20, 2008 |
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|  Occupation: an accountant
Goal Occupation: poet
City, State, Country Currently Living In: Tokyo, Japan
Birthday, No Year; Feb.27, 1961
Birthplace: Oita prefecture, Japan
Marital Status/Children: Married/two daughters
Car/s: I have 1 car-BMW
Currently Working On: the company of the new styled air conditioners(for the better environment)
Birth Order: The eldest daughter(I have two younger sisters)
Favorite Quote: Different strokes for different folks.
(JYUNIN TOIRO in Japanese)
The Last Good Movie I Saw: Big Fish
The Last Good Book I Read: A restaurant with many orders
by Japanese writer Mr. Kenji Miyazawa
Favorite Singer: Luther Vandross
Favorite Song/s: Little Miracles
Favorite Actress or Actor: Jim Carrey
The Most Beautiful Person In The World: Japanese empress Ms. Michiko
The Most Attractive Person In The World: Gogh(I'm an addict of art work)
My Favorite Childhood Memory: I loved reading the children book named "Caroline" series by French artist, Pierre Probst. I hated reading Japanese children books, 'cause their cut in books were not colorful. My mother worried about me. She thought I didn't like reading.
My Favorite Childhood Friend: books and TV. I have been a serious patient of Asthma. Therefore I seldom went out to play with friends.
My Nickname Was/Is: Taka-chan, Takako-chan. Ponta, Nora, and so on.
I Want To Teach My Children: Japanese traditional customs of foods...we have a lot of special traditional event. Japanese young generation tend to ignore everything traditional, and treat them as Old-styled. I would like my kids to remember we are Japanese.
A Really Big Evening To Me Is: I don't have any big evening.
I would rather want to choose normal evening...in short, I don't need anything special in my life.
The One Thing I Cannot Stand Is: Egoism in my heart. sometimes it plays with me when I am depressed.
I Knew I Was Grown Up When: When my mother died at my age of 10.
I Stay Home To Watch: update nature around me
The One Thing Everybody Has Done But Me Is: Common sense.
If I had, I am not able to be a poet!
My All Time Favorite Story Is: The star money by Grimm's fairy tale; An orphan girl was so poor as to have no home; she had only her clothing and some bread. She gave a hungry man the bread, three cold children her cap, her jacket, and her dress, and in a forest where it was dark and she would not be seen, another begging child her shift. Then stars fell to earth before her. They became talers, and she found herself wearing a fine linen shift. She was rich thereafter. (by wikipedia)
My Favorite Pig Out Food Is: Reeces Peanut Butter cups!
My Prized Possession Is: "Myself"
If I Could Look Like Anybody Besides Myself, I'd Look Like: No one :D
I'd Give Anything To Meet: I'd give anything to God for my one's happiness. therefore, my answer is "God".
My Fantasy Is: I love thinking something funny in my fantasy. My fantasy is in my heart. it's the big hint for writing.
The Worst Advice An Adult Ever Gave Me Was: Do your best! (Now I think "do your better, not best!)
I Am Better Than Anyone When It Comes To: I don't know that. I hate comparing with others about anything.
If I Could Change One Thing About Myself, I Would: None. I love myself. I don't want to be anything other than Me.
People Who Knew Me In School Thought I Was: perfectly shy woman. The common person who does not attract attention
The Best Time Of My Life Was/Is: Now!
The Worst Time Of My Life Was/Is: At my age of 10 (as I wrote, at that time, my mother died,)
Behind My Back, My Friends Say: I am a big tree with lots of perches. Everybody drop by when they want to rest from sadness, and then they heal perfectly, they are gone.
If I Have Learned One Thing In Life, It's: Perfect English!
My Most Humbling Experience Was/Is: When my result of the Japanese IQ test was bad, and the teacher asked my parent whether I am stupid or not!
Three Words That Best Describe Me Are: Easy-going woman, funny lady, and horselaugh Poet!
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