NABC Store Manager's Diary — July 5, 2026 (Sun) Day Off

From Saturday yesterday until Monday tomorrow I'm off. Yesterday I attended a lecture at the Moriyama Lifelong Learning Center given by a local historian who helped me when I was working at the library. Back when I was at Shidami Library I hadn't done much with local history, but after I also became director of Moriyama Library I built more connections with the members of the local history study groups, and I finally began to feel the history of Moriyama Ward as something close to me. At the lecture I was happy not only to meet the local historian again after a long time but also to see an "adopted disciple," a first-year junior high student, so I'm glad I got up early to attend. He is scheduled to be the instructor for a class at Shidami Library in August, so I plan to attend that as well. I had intended to relax at home all Sunday morning, but because the ZINE creator 染よだか, who will be the instructor for the events planned in August and September, and I finalized the event title at a recent meeting, I designed an SNS flyer in Canva today so we could start announcing it and registered the event on Zindies. After all, the August event will be held on the 4th, so there is less than a month left. We need to start announcing early. The August 4 event is titled "染よだか　おやつもぐもぐうたかい," a gathering where everyone eats snacks while reading tanka and chatting. The September event will be held on Saturday the 19th under the title "染よだか　詩を読む会," where 染さん will read her poems aloud. Shortly after the August tanka gathering was opened to the public, one person signed up, which was great.