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2025-04-27
Floyd Wilfred Schmoe (September 21, 1895 – April 20, 2001) was a Quaker, pacifist, author, college professor, marine biologist, and park ranger living in the Seattle, Washington, area for most of his...
2025-04-17
In 1942 during WWII with Japan, about 9000 of us Japanese were put into prison in Southern Idaho where we lived in Block 5. I was eleven and my brother Ted was twelve. Dad, being a businessman, had t...
2025-04-07
Auntie Chiyo will be 99-years-old next month, May 2025. She has moved at least 16 times in her life. She had just turned sixteen when she was rounded up with the 9000+ Seattle Japanese and taken by bu...
2025-03-31
When my younger daughter came back to live in the house in which she grew up with her two girls, I turned most of the house over to her and began spending most of my day in my room. I found sitting ...
2025-03-29
Mom, Sis & Kirin got home from the Yakima State Competition at 1:00a, with tear tired EXHAUSTED faces - SMILING. Granddaughter get's up 4 days a week for their 6:15a practices, with frequent pe...
2025-03-26
This past year, I lost 5 people who would have been on my vision board. They are friends and family I have had for over 50 years of my life. But that's life and what I have to go forward is great! T...
2025-03-18
This morning I listened to Dr. Ethan Kross in the Psychology Department at the U of Michigan. Current 2025 research and podcast interview academics suggest, “It’s important to know ourselves for Fulfi...
2025-03-08
"Uni" is kind of short for Unique. We are all unique individual humans. The podcast world is big on helping us find our "unique selves" and research says, we are 50% our genetic ancestry; 25% our ear...
2025-03-04
I spent the morning reading about Aristotle after getting the email from Arthur Brooks and his Art and Science of Happiness organization. It reminds me of the Stories at the Panama that we had yesterd...
2025-03-01
The first time I took the Panas test, I came out to be the Mad Scientist. Taking it several times on different days, I am a Cheer Leader most of the time with higher than average positive assessments ...