Using the power of prayer
The last book Sam was reading was HUMAN DESIGN by Greg Braden. What is most important about who I am is to be continually awakened in my consciousness by his current podcasts.
One path that I want to avoid is that machinery is replacing many parts of our body with the movements of AI. On the other hand, many of the actions of our human cells are no different than being fed by news and loud negative voices around us, and then we let that run the actions of our cells like a robot.
People like Greg Braden tell us that he is a proponent of new science. The wonderful part of science can be for us to learn: NEW WAYS TO OVERCOME! That's brought us to the lifestyles we can now enjoy.
Here's a list of suggestions:
*Awaken my consciousness and Reprogram my beliefs
*Discover my Potential & never limit myself
*Recognize Emotions
I'm learning to communicate with animals, plants and the beautiful universal energy that is way more powerful than I thought. The evidence is the synchronicities that are part of my fulfilling life!
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Finding the best of life in every hour!
So often, we highlight tragedy or bad news. Well, today is absolutely a great banner day! I awakened after a good night of sleep. Deciding I should thank my guardian angels, I included this in my morning gratitude list.
Checking my email, I found the draft of a 10-page article I helped write for the COLUMBIA MAGAZINE - out of the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma. Julianna is a terrific editor and has done wonders with pictures and drawings. It is scheduled to come our in the Winter Edition of the quarterly magazine of Northwest History. Ten pages is 1/3 of the magazine. Deciding that family would want copies, I contacted a few cousins to see about a pre-order list.
Next I got a call from Gary, whom I cornered for help on filing my taxes. He came over with my papers and told me I’m getting my deposits back. I told him that we nned to celebrate by having a Sashimi Lunch at Ginza in Bellevue.
Because of our OMOIDE presentation last Sunday on a national TADAIMA on-line October project. I got an email from Hana in Connecticut. She wants our OMOIDE program to be part of a national story-telling endeavor.
This afternoon, I got a call from David. I’d almost given up on my offer to help his wife with some seizure and health issues with a health program that I have successfully used the last 40 years in my program for family and health counseling. David and I now have a date to get together and talk about it on Sunday. It gives me motivation to be patient and continue to share.
I had a dental appointment with my new dentist, Dr. Jennifer Strelow. Instead of going all the way to Bothell with Dr. Carmody, who bought out Dr. David Branch’s practice, I can now go 5 minutes away to downtown Mercer Island. Jennifer was amazed with Sam’s work in my mouth. I told her my bridges are at least 40 years old. For years, I have heard comments about Sam’s exceptional margins and extraordinary craftsmanship. Since her office is across from Mercerdale Park, I got some exercise walking around the perimeter path a couple times.
It’s still only 6pm. There may still be more to this day?? Meanwhile, I’m preparing a Martha Steward weekly delivered meal. The best part of the plan is that it is healthy and the box comes with just the ingredients that are needed. Therefore, everything is fresh and we know what’s been included.
Sam and I took hot baths every night all our married life and I continue. As explained by Samurai Matcha in his podcast, a hot bath is getting a warm hug.
As I cuddled in the warmth, I could hear the girls singing and harmonizing, getting ready for bed, as they do almost every day!
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Zachary Tamusaitis is part of the UC Santa Barbara Swim Team!
I live too far away to watch his swim meets, but it's fun to be part of the family that gets these kind of pictures and be able to help celebrate.
The last time I was with his immediate family in Burbank, I enjoyed his cooperative nature and the respect he has for his parents, brother, sister and extended family at the memorial of his paternal grandfather. He almost won the card game several of us were playing.
I'm also told that he is a pretty good cook in the house where he is living near UC Santa Barbara campus. I have no idea now, but he had good grades at Notre Dame High School and was recruited to be on this team.
Yeah!!! Zach!!!!
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"HEALTHY CELL" is Goto-Health's super-ego like Jiminy Cricket
EGO: unconscious tape recording of past - conscious expression of self
ID is our hormonal instincts - can be influenced by environment
This week I'm enthused about SAMURAI MATCHA and his podcast about 7 Japanese Habits:
https://youtu.be/r1NfP3vdQcY?si=PJJX5Q3vcuv6c4MR
1. VISIT FAMILY GRAVE: Grandpa Nakanishi bought 12 plots in the Kent Japanese Section of Hillcrest Cemetary in 1925 when Japanese were discriminated. Uncle Hiro remembers mowing the grass before it was incorporated into Hillcrest so now they take care, but it is still segregated. In some. ways it makes us special.
2. PICK UP TRASH: When we lived on Seattle's Capitol Hill in the 1960s, the girls and I pulled their wagon around the block on May Day to pick up trash.
3. HARA HACHIBU - eat until 80% full: The girls being conscientious as teens for looking good, this is no issue.
4. GOCHI-SO-SAMA: Respect for the food, the cook, the food sources, nature and work of providers. We started saying ITADAKIMAS before eatging, but can introduce this appreciative ending. We've gotten lax about starting and ending our meals together, but appreciate that most of the meals get everyone there close to the same time.
5. KOTO-DAMA - care in use of words: Use our Healthy Cell/Jiminy Cricket to guide us. So far the girls are pretty good.
6. KEEP THINGS ON TIME: Example is how there is an apology if a train in Japan is even 1 minute late or early. Our family is working to embrace "YOYU" - translated to "extra" when it comes to time for something, money for shopping, preparedness for presentations, space between obligations and rest.
7. TIDINESS: This is a daily hassel in our home.
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https://tinyurl.com/omoidewriting
Here's the link to register for the Oct 15, 3pm Zoom
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Me, Margaret, Chuck and Del
Reflections are because Sam took the picture, from our deck, outside the kitchen window
Last Thursday, organized by Mary Abo, with her daughter Julie, Kimiko Marr recorded our OMOIDE (memories) stories for a national broadcast on October 15th.
OMOIDE at the JCCCW (Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Washington), the “J”, is our writing group. OMOIDE was started in 1991 in my kitchen with Del Uchida, Margaret Yasuda, Chuck Kato and myself. We gabbed, had refreshments, sometimes included our spouses and did some writing. Christmas 1993, we used Pagemaker, went to Kinko for copies, folded and decorated construction paper covers and self-self-published a bunch of Christmas presents for family. We did that two more times.
In 2003 we became a program of the newly created Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Washington. Ats Kiuchi joined the program and helped us get a Kip Tokuda Civil Liberties grant from Washington State to publish OMOIDE IV. Aki Sogabe donated her Kirigami cover and my husband Sam Goto did the story illustrations. OMOIDE V is a compilation of OMOIDE I, II and III. Now, we are getting organized for OMOIDE VI.
For 20 years we have met on the third Saturday of each month, except December, from 1 - 4pm at the J. It was virtual during Covid. We have hot water from the kitchen and share refreshments between readings and kibitzing about our 500 word stories of incidents (two-minutes is the average attention span without another incident) from our memories. Directed to 5th grade, adults are telling us how much they are enjoying the stories.
Stories are important, getting together is important, and psychologically it is fulfilling. My purpose in life is sharing good heritage values with my kids and future generations. It’s a lot of fun!
Go to jcccw.org and the Hosekibako (jewel box) to purchase OMOIDE books.
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Using the power of prayer
