MY BIGFOOT

For most of the past month, since having come back from Okinawa, it's been freezing collld here. I suppose people living in Alaska or even the northern states of the U.S. would laugh at me for saying it was cold, but the day we came back, it SNOWED. It never snows in Okinawa, and my body got used to 70 degree weather there, so...

Other than the one day I went to the clinic for a blood test, I've stayed indoors. It's too cold to go out! Kinya has been a treasure, hopping to the 100-yen store to pick up things for me, running down to the post office for necessary supplies, doing whatever shopping has been necessary. As I told my sisters, I've found myself saying "please" and "thank you" to Kinya quite a bit the past few weeks.

I hunted up a picture from 2 years ago, when Kinya and I took a lot of walks, and decided to draw a picture from it to say thank you. But I got the nose wrong, and when I tried to fix it, it got worse. I knew what to do. It had worked with other pictures. But oops--the ink just spread, almost looking like Kinya had a moustache! I'd wanted to make a nice picture, but I decided to stop before it turned into a...what do they call those giant hairy apes walking around in the snowy mountains? Bigfoot, wasn't it?

Kinya isn't a hairy ape; but God does make it snow here sometimes, and...Kinya has left a BIG imprint on my heart.