A Woman named June
- kirklmiler
- Sep 30, 2017
- 1 min read
Updated: May 30, 2019
She won me with her smile.
Maybe it was meeting people like June on the bus in Kyoto. Although I only know two words of Japanese I was drawn to introduce myself to her. Maybe it was her gentle, kind eyes that made me miss my own mother. As we rode next to each other on the bus for just a few miles, we tried to convey our thoughts one word at a time. Our smiles and our eyes transcended the language barrier.
She won me with her smile.
She captured the spirit of the people I encountered here in Japan, always a peaceful smile, a sincere desire to make sure I was well taken care of and a willingness to go way out of their way to do so. Just a few precious moments with June and I will never forget her….78 years young.
She was worth the chance.
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