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2022-04-10
I first learn to play games like CHUTES AND LADDERS. As a preschooler, my parents and my siblings play with me and let me win most of the time until I finally learn not to cheat and play by the rules....
2022-03-30
Today, as I was leaving the Panama Hotel Tea and Coffee Shop, I met Sally. Five minutes earlier or later, we would have missed each other. The reason this was a “serendipity” is because this morning, ...
2022-03-21
Today, I had coffee/conversation with Nana at Seattle’s Panama Hotel Tea and Coffee House. One of our discussions as I showed her the book, IKE’S PRINCIPLES started with Luis, the barista.“Luis, how’s...
2022-03-12
Youthful mind is part of IKIGAI: letting the 60,000 thoughts each day cross like clouds, carrying a spa with me wherever I go and knowing when to get in, reaching state of “flow”. Which of my activiti...
2022-03-10
This week I signed up for a seven day workshop with Evan Carmichael because the title, THOUGHT LEADERSHIP is energizing. As the sign on my bathroom wall says: “BE INVOLVED WITH THINGS IN MAKING LIFE B...
2022-02-27
We were living inland, beyond the 400 miles from the Pacific Coast restricted area. Four years previous to December 7, 1941, six households, 11 adults and 15 children, led by my Grandpa K Tsukamaki; m...
2022-02-21
One of my best friends is proud to not be vaccinate and has had a light case of the Covid-19. She is fine with those who feel the vaccination is the way to go, but parts of her family won’t talk to he...
2022-02-12
Last week, February 3, 2022, Bob Proctor died. So I was moved to re-listen to a podcast where he explains that in October 1961 he bought THINK AND GROW RICH, “It changed my life!” In a recent intervie...
2022-01-29
My tea rests on the tableHeat rising and curling up in the frigid airAnd basking in the filtered light From the frozen windowI find my gaze drifting outTo watch the clouds obscuring the sky Leaving a ...
2022-01-20
When our girls were around nine and twelve, I had a teacher of PET (Parent Effectiveness Training), Sheryn Hara, come to our house and teach us the course. The first rule I remember learning is “NO TA...