
朝早く タケノコ農家の方にお借りしている竹干場へやって来ると
一面霜に覆われた竹に 朝日が反射して 何とも美しい光景です
昨年から加わった力持ちのUさんと 竹を干していると
なんとなく腰に痛みが そういえば膝も・・・
体力には自信があったRさんですが
年間の伐竹本数が1000本を超えると 春先にどこかしら身体に痛みが走ります
日頃から秋の伐竹シーズンまでに 柔軟体操・筋トレを地道に続けて身体を整えるのですが
有難いことにここ数年は 身体の声に耳を傾ける時間も充分に取れないほどの忙しさでした
若さで突っ走るとは もう行かない
いつもこの季節 改めて健やかであることに 感謝をします
In an early morning, I came to a bamboo drying space borrowed by a bamboo shoot farmer
and found an amazing scene with bamboo covered with frost reflecting a morning sunshine.
When I work for drying bamboo with Mr. U who is a powerful man joining us last year,
I feel a slight pain in my low back as well as on my knee...
I used to be quite confident in my physical strength, but with more than 1,000 of bamboo
cut in a year, I became feeling a pain somewhere on my body at the beginning of spring.
I try to keep myself up by stretching-out exercise and muscle training until the fall,
the season for cutting bamboo.
However, in the past several years there are thankfully so much works that I don’t even
have a time to listen to my body.
I can not run thorough anymore like I was young.
I feel always grateful to be healthy in this season.
(translated by c.n.)