Good-bye 2011.

This year is really about to end. I still feel it would be lasting for some more days or weeks.

2011 was (well, it's not exactly "was" yet, though) something tough for me. I had to face some sad or difficult situations. When one had gone, then another came. I didn't have any vacation. I wasn't able to engage myself in photography as much as I wanted. So this year actually felt kinda long and boring for me. The reason why I'm feeling the year wouldn't end this early is probably because I want some more. Some more fun and smile.

Yet other part of me is feeling this year was so lovely. I lost one of my most beloved cat in June, but the 5 months after she was diagnosed as a terminal disease, I spent most beautiful days with her. I often felt extremely sad and exhausted from taking care of her, but the days were really beautiful. Then, soon after I lost her, I was gifted the most precious encounter in my life ever. It was totally surprising but also was necessary. I can't help thinking that it happened as it should have. Through these beautiful good-bye and hello, I think this year is good enough. I'm totally satisfied and reluctant to let the year go.

Maybe a year goes like this way, always. And I always linger on the passing year sentimentally.

Restart

I've just come up with the idea that I have a new place for blogging in English. I used to have the one, and then I united it with my Japanese blog. I wrote two different contents of posts for one theme at a time there, but it seemed to be kind of burden in terms of the length of words that I had to write and the time that I had to use for just one post. So I quit. I quit to write in English and came to write only in English.

Now I think that I need to go back to the style that I used to do. Need an independent English blog for the exercise of expressing myself in English. That is because I live in the U.S.and need to practice, that is because English is so appropriate language to express my honesty for me, and that is because to broaden my world.

I haven't come up with many ideas for what to do or what should be done in the coming new year, but for now, I think this（restarting another blog) is enough. To tell the truth, I know that I've already had a lot to do the next year. Now is not the time to tell you, but some of you've already be noticed about it. It's exciting one.

Ummmm, I still don't know what I'm going to write about here yet. Because I've just come up with it, as I told you first. Maybe about food. Or Maybe about my everyday life. But not much about photo. (Just in case you're totally new to me, my most enjoyable hobby is all about photography.) I think it's going to be settled down to where it goes.

So, talk to you sometimes here.