My hometown

所用で、二週末連続で実家へ。
母が駅まで車で迎えに行くよと言うのを断って、
田んぼ道をぶらぶら散歩。

小学生の頃はよもぎや蓮華を摘んで遊んで、
中学生の頃は、友達と川沿いに座って暗くなるまでお喋りをして、
高校生の頃は、毎日自転車通学で走りぬけ、季節毎に変わる景色を楽しんだ、
懐かしい田んぼ。

私が今住む場所(東京)から、電車でわずか15分の距離だけれど、
この広い空。

今度は久しぶりに春に散歩しに来ようかな。


I have visited my parents' house two weekends in a row.
My mum offered to pick me up at the station but I preferred to take a long walk through my old neighborhood, a rice field with lots of memories.

When I was an elementary school student, I used to enjoy picking flowers there.
When I was a junior high school student, I used to sit on the riverbank with my friend and talk until it got dark.
When I was a high school student, I rode through there to school on my bicycle every day and enjoyed looking at the scenery that changes with the seasons.

It's only a 15-minute train ride from where I live now, Tokyo.
Still it has this open sky.

I probably should come back here again in spring,