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Also received this in the mail...
2025-12-02
Yesterday morning, as I was driving my granddaughter to school, she said, "Did you know that Grandpa Lancaster passed yesterday?"   I answereed, "Yes, how do you feel about it?"   She responded, "Kind...
Granddaughter did great with 8...
2025-11-24
Nothing like the THANKFULNESS I feel to be living in a household where there is singing as she comes down the stairs in the morning to various parts of the day as she feels inspired!
It's a good feeling to "connec...
2025-11-13
OMOIDE (memories) is a program where I love being one of the leaders, since 1991, when Margaret Yasuda, Dell Uchida, Chuck Kato and I started meeting in my kitchen weekly to start. Janine Brodine is o...
Caption on a kitchen towel, I ...
2025-11-09
I'm home from a most thought inducing trip of staying with friends and relatives with long conversations about life. As I participate again in picking up the girls after school, this article on YouTu...
"Marriage is a commitment wher...
2025-11-07
Tonight, I stumbled upon an archeological documentary, on YouTube about the pre-Maya culture some researchers have uncovered in Central America. Early in our marriage I surprised Sam with a trip to G...
HONESTY AND INTEGRITY ON THE P...
2025-11-02
I'm in Southern California, visiting with several friends and relatives. It's been a series of conversations that have been most fulfilling because we are being more "honest" about our stories and fin...
Dad's examples of promoting ha...
2025-10-22
This morning, October 2025, my enemies are the those who support and perpetuate the dark aspects of our social media.  In the 1937-1940s in Eastern Oregon & Western Idaho, my Dad arranged to have cof...
Congrats! A Nail Biter!! Happy...
2025-10-21
Nothing like getting as close as the Mariners came to being in the World Series. For me, I have a trip this week to Arizona for the Poston Pilgrimage, where they had one of the sites for the Incarcera...
FINDING PEACE
2025-10-15
This morning I’m listening to a Lewis Howes/Andrew Huberman podcast. They are the ones who got me started with my daily practice of learning, seven years ago, when I chose listening to podcasts as he...