KEIKO KOMA net

5 Jan. 2011

Phoenicia

About twenty years ago as soon as I had landed at Barcelona airport I was touched by a gust of breeze that was the same one that had always been with me and encouraged me when in need of help since childhood. It was sweet and lovely. I smiled and was filled with joy as my life was unified with the surrounding space, wind and light in the color of happiness. Eventually Mr. Idaki Shin said that here should be my homeland and pointed with a finger at the Mediterranean sea. As I watched that direction, the sea brilliantly shining under the sun came into my heart and I shed tears. I realized a destiny that I could not even have imagined in Japan. At today’s Messages from Mother Earth concert the sensation I had had at that time was revived. Also I recalled that I had a similar feeling when I had visited the Island of Sicily in Italy: surrounded by the sweet fragrance of olive and a special pleasant breeze I was very happy. I wondered how a place seemingly in a difficult social situation could have a marvelous space like that. I felt that there should be a secret in history that we could discover at the core of our life. Anyway a land of Phoenicia always welcomed me with a special breeze and aroma that made me happy and vigorous. At today’s concert, I narrated poems about messages of souls and the land of Koguryo. To my wonder I became extremely happy on every occasion when I narrated things about Koguryo, not to mention when I was in an historic place of Koguruo. The photo of Wandu castle and me taken by Mr. Idaki Shin demonstrated this very well: I was fully smiling in front of a fortification wall that had never been touched or investigated for over one thousand nine hundred years. I recalled that when he photographed this picture Mr. Idaki Shin asked me what made me look so happy and I replied that I was happy just standing in a land of Koguryo. So my memory of Barcelona was revived as something related to Koguryo and Phoenicia.