雪降る中での凛とした祈祷に感銘
中学の読み聞かせは本日も富山房はせみつこ編「しゃべる詩」シリーズを持って教室へ。前に先生が実力テストについて話していらしたのでクラスは緊張した雰囲気。読みながら生徒たちの反応を見ようとするもマスク越しではイマイチよくわかりません。谷川俊太郎の短い詩「かっぱ」を読んだ後に皆んなと実践を試みました。２、３度私の後に続けて繰り返すうちに生徒たちの集中力が見えリズムを掴んで元気になりだし、最後に男女一人ずつ代表で読んでもらった後の皆の歓声は愉快そのもの。やったぁ～！という感じでした。
帰ってから多賀大社で町祈祷。感染予防のため代表者３人だけが出席ということで今年初めて拝殿に上がらせていただきました。雪降る中での凛とした祈祷に感銘を受けました。
I went to Taga Junior High School for story telling carrying a poem book series edited by Mitsuko Hase and published by Fuzanboh. Just before I entered, the teacher was talking to his class about their achievement test, so the atmosphere was tense. I read some short poems and wanted to see the students’ reactions, but it was a little hard because their masks obscured their facial expression. After reading a poem of Kappa ( water imp in ponds and rivers) by Shuntaro Tanikawa, I invited them to read the same poem together. During the time I asked them to repeat the line after me, they concentrated on reading the short funny poem more and more and took the rhythm of the words. At the end, I asked one boy and girl to read it alone. The class was very excited and cheered at the end. I was so excited, too.
Coming back home, I went to Taga Taisha to receive new year’s prayer as a representative of my Neighborhood association which usually all members are supposed to receive but because of coronavirus ,only three members received it. We sat in a shrine hall of worship. It was a very impressive moment while we were listening to shinto prayer by a shrine priest.
2022/01/21
