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Refreshing and encouraging to see an explosion of color on a politician in Japan! Courage and individuality,,, this is the message I read behind it.

Good job Monsieur Le Premier Ministre!

This morning I wanted to celebrate an inspiring woman. A woman with style, grace and refreshing intelligence. Pls meet Aimee while she talks at the TED conference. She compares prosthetic legs to eyeglasses, and in the same way that we wear designer eyeglasses, she has designer legs (she was wearing her 4-inch heel legs for the talk and made her 6.1 feet tall), she makes it clear that with an attitude you can pull off anything!

(今日はある素晴らしい女性を紹介したいと思います。　スタイルと、優雅さ、そして知性を持った女性。TEDカンファレンスで講演する、エイミー・ムリンズさんです。彼女は義足をサングラスに例えています。私たちがブランド物のサングラスをかけるように、彼女はブランド物の義足をつけています。（この日彼女は１０ｃｍのヒールのついた義足をはいていたから、１８６ｃｍもあったの）彼女は、どんなことも引き起こせるということを証明しているわね。）

If you are looking for inspiration click HERE!

Aimee Mullins was born without fibular bones, and had both of her legs amputated below the knee when she was an infant. She learned to walk on prosthetics, then to run - competing at the national and international level as a champion sprinter, and   setting the world records at the 1996 Paralympics in Atlanta. At Georgetown, where she double-majored in history and diplomacy, she became the first double amputee to compete in NCAA Division 1 track and field.

（エイミー・ムリンズさんは、腓骨のに体で生まれてきて、幼少の頃に両足の膝下を切断しました。彼女は歩き方を習い、そして走り方を習い、国内、海外でチャンピオンスプリンターとして大会に出場し、１９９６年アトランタパラリンピックで世界記録を更新しました。ジョージタウンで、彼女はＮＣＡＡの陸上競技に出場した、初の両足切断された選手となったのです。）

After school, Mullins did some modeling – including a legendary runway show for Alexander McQueen – and then turned to acting, appearing as a Leopard Queen in Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle. In 2008, she was the official Ambassador for the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival. She is a passionate advocate for a new kind of thinking about prosthetics, and recently mentioned to an interviewer that she is been looking closely at MIT’s in-development powered robotic ankle, ” which I fully plan on having.”

（学校を卒業後、ムリンズさんはモデルとして活躍―あの伝説的なアレクサンダー・マックイーンのファッションショーにも出演ー、そして女優となり、マシュー・バーニーのCremasater Cycleにレオパード・クイーンとして出演しました。2008年には、Tribeca/ESPNスポーツフィルムフェスティバルの公式大使になりました。　彼女は義足に対する新しい考えを熱心に支持していて、最近インタビューで、ＭＩＴの開発中の電動足首を「必ず手にいれる予定」だと話していました。）

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So proud of you Sun!

4 yr-old Devan has leukemia.

Looking for marrow donors

http://bit.ly/aQSAni

Please help!

I went to Mars The Salon yesterday, Mei Yamaguchi  (山口めい）did my nails, she is great and speaks fluently and elegantly English. I highly recommend her.

www.marsthesalon.com

From left: Emiri, Eri, Hiroko & Miyako

I AM GOING TO TONI&GUY NOW TO HAVE MY HIGHLIGHTS DONE. I WILL MEET HIROKO AS SHE SHOOTS ALL DAY WITH CASSIO.

THEN 3 EVENTS TO ATTEND TODAY, UNTIL LATE TONIGHT…. IT IS NON-STOP RIGHT NOW!

TOMORROW SHOOT FOR MY DVDs ALL DAY. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR COMMENTS, TONS OF THEM LATELY!!!

I LOVE READING YOU, BEFORE MY BOYS WAKE UP EARLY MORNING, WITH A CUP OF FRESH COFFEE.

A BIENTOT!

I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep.  That’s deep enough.  What do you want – an adorable pancreas?  ~Jean Kerr, The Snake Has All the Lines

HE IS RIGHT! EMIRI IS SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL! SHE LOOKS BEAUTIFUL AND THAT’S IT! SHE IS INCREDIBLY FUN AND SWEET AS WELL.  AND THIS IS WHY PEOPLE LOVE HER… BECAUSE SHE IS AN ADORABLE BARBIE-DOLL.

People are like stained-glass windows.

They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.  ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Well, Hiroko definitely has plenty of light inside!