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Are you a polyglot? @queenhorsfall is! ️ I like to learn words in other languages but like many Americans, I can only speak English. 

I’m a third-generation Japanese American (sansei) & have lived in Seattle for six decades. Most of the Japanese I learned were niceties to say to my grandparents,  but as a kid, I also picked up essential words like “baka” (idiot) & “hanakuso” (booger). 

This week I learned “Shikata ga nai,” means, “It can’t be helped.” Podcast host @GuyKawasaki described it another way: “It is what it is, so stop feeling sorry for yourself & suck it up.” 

Guy did a podcast  with Jeanne Wakatsuki, the author of a memoir, Farewell to Manzanar.  Manzanar was one of 10 camps built to corral Japanese Americans during WWII.   In his prologue, Guy says Jeanne has traveled to educate people with the hope that nothing like this happens again. I hope that, too. ⚠️

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor led the US to enact #ExecutiveOrder9066 to stop espionage. ️‍♂️ Fear, suspicion, & war hysteria led to the three-year incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese American citizens. 

During the war, my family ‍‍‍ was dispatched to a concentration camp at Tule Lake in northern California. ☀️ It’s the Japanese way to quietly endure & overcome.  My bestie & I (both sansei) have talked about how the camp experience did a real psychological number on our parents. 

Can you imagine in current times  locking up people because of their ethnicity or beliefs?  How about their medical status?
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I discovered the #RemarkablePeople podcast  through my professor @erickoester. Guy has fascinating conversations with interesting people—remarkable people, actually . I hope you’ll check out & subscribe to his podcast. The link is in my bio.
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Family update: oldest son arrived home safely! Photos: #roses #hydrangea #chrysanthemum #funeralflowers #godspeed #summercolors #summerflowers from #Charmaine&Bill #pixelphotos #googlepixel #Seattlesummer #Seattleinthesummer # #macro_delight #japanesewords
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Do you seek changes in your life, or does change happen to you? 

The past few weeks have been rugged.  On the heels of submitting my book manuscript,  IG made announcements about turning the platform into a ️ “video and shopping” channel. ️ It threw me for a loop, and I had to quickly pivot and recover.

Today a family member passed away.  It was anticipated, but even when we expect something like this, it sets a lot of things in motion including behaviors you don’t expect.h ⚙️

In thinking about uninvited changes, I found a resource. A book by M.J. Ryan called Adaptability: How to Survive Change You Didn’t Ask For. It talks about adaptability and how to master it. She made an important point: “Change isn’t the enemy—fear is.”  When you stop to think of it that way, you realize it’s true.

She says there are four steps we can take to help us adapt in the future: 

 Acceptance

 Expand your options

 Taking action

 Strengthen adaptability

It reminds me of a saying – there’s no use worrying about things you can’t change .

Do you ever think about how you impact others,  and how your absence would affect them? 

Wishing you all safe and peaceful weekends. ☮️

Photos: Taken last week when I was #onmywalktoday with my sister. #macroflowers #onmywalk #summercolors #summerflowers #pixelphotos #Seattlesummer #Seattleinthesummer #pixelphotography #macro_delight #Seattlegardens #seattleflowers

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