It's a clear and windy day after huge rain. I found many buds of trees in my small back yard. As if it were a passage of Pippa passes by Browning: "God's in His heaven; all's right with the world!" without turmoils that have come out since the ISIL's threats to the Japan's gov't.


I happened to watch a report on TV that shows one of Syrian guides who escorted the Japanese hostage into the ISIL. He has no beard or anything like that on the face, though he is a Syrian. Is he homosexual? I had always beard while I traveled or lived in Arabic regions for not getting confused to be targets of such a kind of taste. It's also a protocol to have beard as a grown-up in the area. The hostages have no beard this time. I'm afraid that ISIL might apply strict codes of crimes against homosexuals to them, though they are not classified into the type of case. They should have got caucious about Arabic customs much more before they entered the area.