Shusaku Harada: February 2007

there's never too much of Shu!

Happy birthday from the mosheeees, xoxox S+N

from Mr. Nigel

'SHU LOVES PUSSY'
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
LOVE, NIGEL

your birthday in 2006

Oh stinky, happy birthday my angel!!!!

I have just woken up and now in both London and Japan (and here), it is
truly your birthday, meaning that you have made 28 complete rotations
around
the sun! Oh stinky, how I miss you this morning. Last night I
couldn't sleep
when I went to bed. It's not that I didn't try to sleep. I tried away
and I
lay there and I imagined holding you in my arms and I imagined us in
beachy
head and in the pyrenees and singing daisy daisy on the canal and
kissing
you a hundred times on your cheek and your pushing me away a little
bit and
saying STINKY! Oh stinky, I did I did I did, I really did.

Oh stinky! It's your birthday and I wish I could be with you all day,
giving
you a hundred million kisses and hugs and even a bite on the bum and
you'll
say STINKY! DON'T ALWAYS BITING ME ON THE BUM! Oh stinky, I love you
so so
much you cannot imagine it. It's like every part of me is going to
explode.

Oh stinky! Please take care of yourself today. Do wonderful things.
Go to
the tate modern. Go for a stroll along the river and think how
wonderful our
life is.

I think last night I was a little distracted by the housing issue
because I
guess I was really hoping for us to have our love nest all nice and
ready
for my return, and sometimes when I couldn't sleep it gave me great
comfort
to imagine us all alone mumbling and jumbling around in our little
nesteroo.
Oh stinky!

But then when I realise that as soon as we're back we can find a little
place for us to move and a little nest for our love, I felt so
excited and
relieved.

I just want to tell you how much joy you bring to my life, how much
meaning,
how when I think of you I never feel alone and whenever I imagine
your smile
I smile (I can't help it, I just do, a great joyful grin creeps
across my
face as the happiness begins warm in my chest and comes up to my lips
and
forces its expression there). I want to tell you how each and every
day your
friendship makes me feel so safe and so valuable and so happy. Please be
good to yourself. Please take care of yourself. Please look both ways
and
never gawk around.

You really are the greatest and most wonderful person I could
imagine, the
greatest thing that ever happened to me, my best friend, my reason for
living. If I could dedicate my life as though it were one great
complex work
(like the time we discussed a hypothetical documentary where somebody is
filmed in real time, and it's as much a sacrifice as a privilege to
watch
the resulting film, because one must sacrifice one's own life to
share time
with the person being filmed), well if my life were one enormous
multi-faceted work, it would be an understatement to say that it
dedicated
to you. It is all yours, for you, of you, with you, and even by you.
I love
you. I will stay with you my whole life, and always love you. If I could
better express this love by ripping off all my clothes and running
down the
motorway, or swimming home to you in england, or screaming it out at
the top
of my lungs hoping the sound would bounce off the moon and reach you in
London, oh stinky I would I would I would.

Please have a wonderful birthday!

I love you so so much. I attach a few pictures so you remember us
together
on your birthday morning.

Mister stinky A.K.A. mister doodlebird A.K.A. "stinks".

from your Family!!!

周作様、誕生日おめでとう！29歳ですね！もう周ちゃんとは言えないりっぱな大人に
なりました。これも近くにいる友達のおかげです。それを忘れない様にね！皆に支え
られ生活が出来る周作は幸せ者ですね。今までも良い人生であった様にこれからも身
体に気をつけて自分の決めた夢を追いかけて下さい。

振り返る必要はないけれどこれを書きながら家にいた頃を思い出して書いています。
小さい頃から何でも出来る凄い良い子でした
運動・勉強・趣味、何でも興味のある子でした。こんな周作を生んだ母は幸せ者です。
生まれてくれてありがとう！私の自慢の子です。
これからもこれを生かして自分なりに皆に迷惑をかけないで夢に頑張ってください。

ある本を読みました。そしたら私にもズキッと来る言葉が書いてありました。

「幸運が訪れないからには、訪れないだけの理由がある。幸運を掴む為には、自ら下
ごしらえをする必要がある」

「欲するばかりでは幸運は手に入らない幸運を呼び込む一つの鍵は人に手を差し伸べ
られる広い心」

「自分の知っている事が全てとは限らない
幸運を掴むにはあらゆる可能性に眼をむけなくてはならない」

「幸運を作るというのはつまり条件を自ら作る事である」

私はこの本を読んで「ウー」と思いました。
私はこの言葉の様に強くないから「ウー」と思うばかりです。
この本の作者は、この本を書くのに８時間しか掛からなかったと書いていて、
この本を考えるのに３年掛かったそうです。ですから私がこの人の言葉を借りていい
のだろうかとも思いました。
でも凄い言葉だったので我が子、周作様に送りたかったからかきました。
こんなに強く人生をいきられたらいいですね。
頭に入れて生活するだけでも違うと思って？！

これからも身体に気をつけて毎日を大切に過ごして下さい。周作の体だけを何時も気
にかけています。でもこのメッセージをジョシュア様・友達から受け取り、周作の回
りの友達の愛に感動・感激しました。私の心も安心した次第です。
本当に良い人たちに囲まれて周作は幸せ者です。
皆がいるから周作もいるのでしょうね！

これからも頑張ってね！父・母・兄より

From lovely Joe for loveliest Shu: 1

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From lovely Joe for loveliest Shu: 2

still, you need to click on the image so it gets big!

From lovely Joe for loveliest Shu: 3

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Happy Happy from your former wife

Shu, to have you fly in a spaceship was only one of the ideas i had for your birthday, but more from me later down but with pictures from much earlier...

Happy many more my lovely friend Shu! love, Andrea

Aya - Birthday

誕生日

誕生日。
あなたがひとりでこの世界にあらわれた日。
あなたの物語がはじまった日。
一年に一度その日を迎え、
その度にあなたの物語が増えていく…

誕生日。
あなたの命が生まれた日。
その日がなければ、
素敵な出会いも積み重ねてきた思い出も存在しなかった…

誕生日。
あなたの誕生を祝う日。
自分が生きていることを意識する日。
その幸せを感じる日。
自分を守ってくれる人達に感謝する日。
自分をもっと大切にしたくなる日。
そしてまた新しい物語をはじめる日。

誕生日。
なんて素敵な日なんだろう…

Birthday

Birthday is the day you came into the world alone.
Birthday is the day a story of adventure of your own began.
Birthday is the day you celebrate your birth.
Birthday is the day you add a new memory.
Birthday is the day you appreciate that you are still alive.
Birthday is the day you find happiness in your life.
Birthday is the day you thank everyone who supports you always.
Birthday is the day you start on a new journey of your life.
Birthday is the day you get to like yourself more.
Birthday…..what a meaningful day in life.

Happy Birthday from Brittani and Sam

Nine Wishes for Your 29th

For three more books, and then three more.
For lots of fun (and lots of love) in your new pad
For more ice caps in your future
For malarkey and saying it like it is (and a wealth of new colloquialisms to come)
For good cooking
For homemade ice cream
For Josh being at home and not in Southeast Asia
For raw horse meat (I suppose) and anything else delicious
And, of course, for 29 more years, and 29 more after that, and 29 more after that, and...

Happy Birthday, Love Sidd

Dear Shu,... wishing you a wonderful Birthday,.. - we have known each
other for many years now and been meeting in London and Tokyo,
sharing many interesting experiences through Ka Chou Fuh Getsu also;
hope that our friendship endures the decades and look forward to many
more odd and interesting conversations in many more locations,..
- Love, ...~ Sidd

From Shoichi

長いようで、短いのは人生
短いようで、長いのも人生
1日 1日を、有意義に・・・・・・・・
お父さんより

To you from Cathy

Some memories....to share...about this wonderful gentle, joyful
intelligent handsome guy that is my other nephew now...and such a
great member of our family....
Memories;....
Sharing time in the Alps....calling you two when you were
up on top of Mount Bleau...to check on when to meet for dinner,
sharing wondrous hikes together there, and cooking and eating great
meals together in the chalet
Getting really sick together on the ship above Swalbardt ....and
calling for a TAXI to pick us up from the glacier on top of an
amazing remote barren mountain walk on which you two were leaping up
rocks and heights ahead of us like mountain goats!!! .
also ..long walks and talks at Joe and Bonnie's in DC.......
Most of all watching the two of you over the years keep growing,
finding your own unique selves and at the same time becoming a closer
and closer team together...Am so glad Shu, that you are in all our
lives....especially Josh's.... HAPPY BIRTHDAY.....love Cathy