Did you have a happy holiday with your family?
Forgive me for this late greeting.
This new year, I started an ordeal with physical problems that was like being tortured. While groaning and straining at the leash, days and months flew away. I am stay alive now by the grace of my husband's help and encouragements from friends. In the beginning of the year, I felt human warmth and kindness in my heart and bones.

Another help to save me was by the EL symbol of "universe."  In this letter, I'm going to introduce how it has been working for me and might be able to work for global people too. For that, I have to tell you my not-so-happy story first.

Also please check out hot news about Earth Language at the end.

The Symbol of The Universe

The year 2016 started with success of cataract surgeries for both of my eyes. I was so happy to get back my vision, and thanked the new technology. Then, the next exciting events with ambulances and several days of hospitalization were waiting for me.

I had been healthy and needed almost no medical treatment nearly for 30 years, since I immigrated to the US. But the year 2016 suddenly brought me plenty and a new life with long term disability. What does Nature want me to do with that?

One summer day, I manually labored in my garden as usual, ignoring my bones' age. Then suddenly my backbone crushed in two places, throwing my body down onto the ground with a big sound, and made it hard for my body to move. Besides, I had had hornet stings on my leg from an earlier incident. So I was given antibiotics, which kills most gut flora to digest food, then I was infected by drug resistant C-diff colitis. The colitis was so tough, it revived again and again. Each time it showed up with high temperature, severe diarrhea, vomiting, nausea, entire body shaking... all these symptoms raged over my extremely painful back that easily made spasms, and what's more, intense itching stroked my leg by the earlier hornet stings, and my entire body swelled with itching from an allergic reaction to medicines later. Also my overactive bladder was stimulated very much by pain and swelling of the back and colon. All these kinds of problems flooded me relentlessly for months, and continuous sleepless nights increased stress.

I had been proud of my body like a specimen of muscles, but it quickly emaciated like a specimen of bone structure. When nutrients are badly needed to rebuild the bones, my body lost digestion ability. My fat-less body had to get calories from muscles to survive. Because of the decline of muscles, bone density also much decreased into severe osteoporosis. In these days, the colitis is finally calmed down, and I'm trying hard for rehabilitation exercise, carefully to not to re-crush the worn out bones.

Even so, I can't clear spasms that bring extreme pain with shrieking yet. When it happens, my legs fold down as a marionette whose threads got suddenly cut. Also for desk work or cooking, a hand or elbow has to support the upper part of my body. Otherwise, torturing pain bites my pelvis and doesn't go away for a long time.  With difficulty to move without two canes, and concern not to spread the infectious disease, my social activity reduced to a minimum. Sometimes I am too exhausted to do anything, almost losing my will and hope. When a spasm happens, the muscle gets hardened, tightly holding harsh pain. My entire mind and body also loses flexibility and becomes fragile and unstable.

It was in that situation, that the hand in my heart instinctively grasped the axis of the symbol of the universe.

From the axis, "eternity" immediately flows into my inner body. The umbrella makes my body defrost and float in nothing.  My consciousness gets free from my shrunken and hardened self, and I feel melting and connecting with energy of whole existences, such as the moon, clouds, trees, friends on the opposite side of the earth, and unknown people etc. who share the axis of the universe. I can't avoid pain, but can ward it off  to not hold it long, I've learned.

The system of our body works on the material logic. A symbol can't use magic for repairing broken bones. However, our minds work as energy. The image of a symbol influences the flowing of our mind, to temporarily call it back to the original and flexible way set by Nature, I think. Probably it would take much time to get back my original healthy body. Even so, it is a big hope to find out this way to make my mind axis stable.


By the way, the year 2016 disclosed unbalance and instability of the global world, too. The expansion of the gap between the rich and the poor, and refugee problems brought conflicts between religions, also between monetary globalism and local-ism all over the world. People are concerned about more aggravation of these conflicts this year.

Just like collecting pain and stress brings a person in danger of sudden bursts of rage or falling into depression, a society also loses health by collecting stressful frictions, and might run into madness to invite the end of the world.

Before it happens, I hope that each individual wakes up as a member of lives on the earth, opening his or her heart to others energy by touching the axis of the universe. Each one frees himself from the self-tied chain. That is the shortcut way to get back a peaceful society, don't you think?

In the world of my body, medication was given to improve each symptom, and the synergism between them and side-effects upset the balance of my many organs and cells pushing next to next as a domino effect. In the global world, the same thing can be suspected. If they deal with arms, weapons and money in the material system to fix each problem, contrary to solving it, more pain, hatred and problems could be raised. In the world of lives, nothing is solved by only material logic. Energy of complaining makes the world unstable. We don't like inequality, because it's against the natural order always keeping balance while moving around. The axis of the universe is constant and common, whatever people's opinions are. Actually we all can't be away from the infinite axis. Why don't we share the consciousness about that?

What is oneself? Isn't it a being of relations, after all? What and how you are relating to others, to history, to nature... those threads are composing you. In fact, everyone wants to have beautiful relationships with many others, but sometimes one builds a wall around himself to shut communications out blaming someone else, and try to distort the world. Even for them, the axis of the universe connecting entire existences is close to them as long as they touch it.

At the beginning of the year, I pray that EL symbols will continue to grow, reminding people widely about it, also pray for your health and fruitful time.


2016 Hot News related to Earth Language (EL)

# Remodeled a part of EL Font for the first time in nine years, collaborating with Mitsuhiro Saiji (Japan). Download is free through http://earthlanguage.org/english/ehome.htm

# Successor of the Earth Language Website appeared!
Mr. Mindey: a young linguistic expert and his team in Europe are planning to take care of renewing the site in modern ways with high technology that I haven't had. They plan to create the new site sometime in 2017.
I look forward to seeing what the site looks like, and how the symbols grow. I'll keep my messy old site in the future years too, as the original proposal, and from this site and the FB page, I'll let you know when the new site is created.

# I couldn't update the EL site almost at all last year. Instead, in the Facebook Earth Language page, I have introduced basic symbols with each related photos or sometimes seasonal creations as haiku.

Thank you very much for your time.

　「宇宙」記号

地球語の「宇宙」のシンボルは
そんな意味を込めてこんな（*写真）傘形。
存在のすべてを包んで
一つの軸の秩序のもとに回っています。