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"BRANCHING OUT" - absorbing th...
2025-05-19
The word is “becoming”. It’s an ongoing process. Five best friends that I had for over 50 years left me last year. My soulmate best friend left this world seven years ago. For those last seven years,...
Life fulfillment is finding, c...
2025-05-05
The picture is still clear in my mind, 70 years later. I am standing in the outside stair-well that leads into the church basement. The sun is shining, but I feel cold and the confirmation that I am n...
 Building “Houses for Hiroshim...
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 hi...
"Stove Pipe Rock" found by Pau...
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 ...
"HOME" - WHEREEVER I AM WITH F...
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 b...
EXERCISE BALL ON THE REBOUNDER...
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 ...
Mercer Island Drill - WHAT A T...
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 perfor...
YOU RAISE ME UP!
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...
 The left brain generally exce...
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...
In Japanese dog is "INU". Spel...
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 ea...