REMINDERS FOR DOING THE RIGHT THINGS!!!
2025-09-18
"Doing what's right is hard to do when
no one knows, but doG and you!" sg
My daughter, Kelly, got a large rock from the quarry at Preston’s Marenakos Rock Center, had it sliced in two and polished. One-half is the grave stone at the Hillcrest Cemetery in Kent, WA, with a drawing of our house that commemorates the life of Sam Goto. Sam’s sentiments fill our house. We have boxes full of sticky notes. We have word balloons on our bathroom walls, which were once filmed by KING5 TV when Kelly was in high school, in the 1980s, and interviewed by Lori Matsukawa on KING5's "Stars of Tomorrow" program.
When Sam retired in 2013, he brought home boxes of his journals and notes from his Goto Dental Lab office of the saying from people he admired like Will James and Victor Frankl, as he listened to cassette tapes and the radio. He loved KVI with Bob Hardwick and Jim French's stories. I think one of the dramas was about Helen Trump: A lot of Woman in a Lot of Places; ”with a huge top drawer". I think the writers were inspired by Dolly Parton.
It's inspirational to go through Sam's drawings and Kelly put them in a book SEATTLE SAMURAI that you can copy and put the drawings and saying on your own walls and fridge.
We daily sit and contemplate these sayings taped to the wall in our bathroom with washi tape, "BE INVOLVED WITH THINGS THAT MAKE LIFE BETTER".
The other rock-half has the above picture and sits on our entry steps, greeting our visitors and family as we come home to remind us of what's important in our home and life.