我が家の南側は運良く隣家の広い庭でこの季節アジサイが美しい。

We are fortunate enough to have a neighbor’s large garden on the south side of our house, which has beautiful hydrangeas this season.

早朝夫婦で縄跳び、9時からJIA編集会議。6月15日COVID-19特集は40ページという前代未聞のヴォリューム。昼は近所でテイクアウトを買うラムダック東京のラムバーガー。とんでも無い肉の量で800円。

We jumped rope early in the morning and had a JIA editorial meeting at 9 am. The June 15 issue of COVID-19 is unprecedented 40 pages in volume. For lunch, I bought a lamb burger at Lamb Duck Tokyo for take-out in my neighborhood. It’s an outrageous amount of meat for 800 yen.

研究室には留学先から泣く泣く帰ってきた院生が二人いるが、二人とも日本にいて遠隔授業で留学先のスタジオの指導を受けている。ゼミでそんなポルトガルのデザイン指導の話を紹介してもらった。修道院の改修課題で、zoomで小一時間図面に赤を入れながらの指導だそうだ。日本より充実しているかも。

Two graduate students in my lab came back from their study abroad countries in tears, but both are in Japan and are receiving instruction at their studios via distance learning. In my seminar, One of them introduced such a story of design guidance in Portugal. It’s a monastery renovation assignment, and she said it’s an hour of instruction in ZOOM with red on a drawing. It may be more fulfilling than Japan.

お米を、あまり食べなかったが、家に長くいるので、食のバラエティが広がり米も食べる機会が増えた。我が家のお茶碗はわたし達夫婦と同じ1959年生まれ。60歳には見えず生まれたてのように美しい。

I didn’t eat a lot of rice, but since I’ve been at home longer, I’ve been able to expand my food variety and have more opportunities to eat rice. My family’s rice-bowl was born in 1959, the same year as my spouse and I. It doesn’t look 61 years old and is as beautiful as a newborn.