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2024-06-24
As I went around the room and asked each person to first identify themselves and what their heritage was, I explained to them, "Research is suggesting we start with verbally sharing and remembering o...
2024-06-16
Carlos Navaro, his wife Rosa and their three children invited me to visit in their home. Carlos is from Mexico and lives in Quincy, Washington, a small town 150 miles east of Seattle. Driving from...
2024-06-12
Last Saturday, June 8, 2024, my OMOIDE VII - Kip Tokuda Memorial Grant Project assistant, Erika, accompanied me as I drove from Seattle to Spokane. Crossing from evergreens to sage brush, Erika had a ...
2024-06-03
The shock of the news that Andy Goto was gone brought tears, but the sadness needed connections and discussions. Who can I call, who doesn’t mind being bothered? Simon Sinek gives an example of hi...
2024-05-25
All of life seeks food, protection from danger and reproduction, but humans are the only ones that can tell stories. Secondly, connecting with others in conversation helps us understand ourselves bet...
2024-05-18
This year, 2024, will be the seventh year since Sam passed. Eighteen of us gathered at the Hillcrest Cemetery for a "nanakaiki" (seventh year Japanese memorial ceremony), installment of the stone ma...
2024-05-06
Sam, you raised us up "to stand on mountains", "I am strong, when I am on" the shoulders of our family and your besties, who were there to support me! I was escorted to the event and to the stage o...
2024-04-29
Last night my granddaughter got herself with some teenage no nos. This morning she is being reprimanded so she is responding, "I hate myself! This world sucks!" I’ve been listening to a Price Pritch...
2024-04-25
The year was 1993. Ann Gaponoff put up a sign at Island Books about starting a writing group because she had gone to her sister Frances’s wedding in Michigan the year before in September and connecte...
2024-04-12
Penny Simkin is a world famous Child Birth Educator, born in Maine with Mayflower heritage. She has been a close friend for 60 years. We were neighbors in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. A nice ...