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2023-08-28
When I talk to out-of-state friends and relatives, I brag about how we have the best weather despite a lot of rain in Seattle. It’s always cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter than most other...
2023-08-18
K Tsukamaki, my maternal grandpa, came to the Seattle area from Hiroshima, Japan, in 1907 and became a dairy hand. He had a Japanese immigrant uncle that was already working as a dairy hand in the Ken...
2023-08-13
"Pain is necessary and valuable. Suffering is a choice of our mind. Right now, if you are miserable, you are sending a message to every cell in your body that you don't want to live," Sudhguru shares!...
2023-08-09
As posted on my blog, I read the Mary Fujita story at the event last Sunday. It was attended by several hundred people and 1000 lanterns were prepared to remind us all that it is important that Hirosh...
2023-08-04
Today, I listened to a Lex Fridman interview with Joscha Bach. What impresses me is the work these scientist are doing at MIT University with development of AI.It is clear that the intelligence creat...
2023-07-16
The place is Birch Bay, near the Canadian border. It was Labor Day 1960. I was 21 and Sam was 27.Sam and I had been dating, but this was the first time we spent the whole day together. Dating within o...
2023-07-11
What an experience! Yucatan and learning about the Mayan Culture was also one of Grandpa Sam's favorite trips.Kirin says, "I learned about the 'privilege of death' in their culture. How there is this ...
2023-07-11
Josh is 6 foot 5 inches tall and likely headed for being recruited for football. He just completed his freshman year of high school in Santa Cruz, CA. His grandma paid for him to attend the SeaHawk F...
2023-06-23
I'm being asked to read this story at the yearly Lantern floating event. Mary was a distant relative of my mother's family from Hiroshima. It seems that many of the bomb survivors were even stronger b...
2023-06-20
Today, I spent the afternoon playing Shanghai Rummy with 97-yr-old Auntie Chiyo “Onions” Nakanishi. Chiyo and her daughter, Ellen, downsized to the Villagio Apartment complex on Yarrow Bay in Kirkland...