今が生死

孫達の日本の学校での勉強も後8日で、7月20日が修了式で21日には甲府を離れること
になっている。山梨にいる間にどこかに連れて行ってやりたいと本日清里に行ってき
た。標高1549メートルの美し森に上り、ロックで昼食を食べ、メリーゴーランドに乗
り真実の口に手を入れて占いをしてもらい、清泉寮でソフトクリームを食べて帰って
きた。ロックも清泉寮も混んでいたが、清里駅前の商店街は閑散としていた。栄枯盛
衰は世の習いというが、かっては日曜日など混み過ぎて歩けないくらいだったが、今
は日曜の今日でさえ人影は殆どなかった。私は清里に限らず栄えていたお店などが潰
れて無くなってしまうと悲しくなる質で、そこを通る度に悲しくなる。廃れてしまっ
たのにはそれなりの原因があると思われるが、世の中には廃れると心苦しくなる人間
がいるので、廃れないように工夫、努力を重ねてもらいたいと願う。
Studying at the Japanese school of the grandchildren is just 8 days later,
July 20 is the completion ceremony and it is supposed to leave Kofu on the
21st. We went to Kiyosato today to take them somewhere while in Yamanashi.
We went up  Mt. Utsukusigamori with an altitude of 1,549 meters, ate lunch at
Rock, took a merry-go-round and put a hand in the mouth of the truth and
took fortune-telling, eating soft serve icecream at the Seisenryo and came
back.
Rock and Seisenryo were crowded, but the shopping area in front of
Kiyosato station was quiet. Although it is said that the ups and downs is
general in the world, it was crowded and it was hard to walk on Sunday in
the past, but now there were few people even on Sunday today.
Not only Kiyosato but also the shops that were prosperous past, later were
crushed and disappeared make me sad, and I feel sad whenever I go through
it. Although it seems that there is a reason for it to be obsolete, there
are some people who have a hard time in the society, so we hope to devise
and effort so that they will not be lost.