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HISTORY OF JAPAN

For nostalgia Tuesday this week, I go way back in time to when I was not yet born.   About that graphic to the right : .. .the process of searching for my roots started at a one day workshop held at the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii. This is where I created the family mon as a composite of two classic versions.     I colorized this official form into the rainbow version shown to the right,   which then became the cover for   SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for Planet Earth . The mon represents a high bridge ( Takahashi means high bridge in Japanese ) to connect countries and people taking the high road to cooperation . My roots are in Japan.  My father's father, Kenjiro Takahashi, must have had an incredible life during the 33 years he lived. Way back in 2009 I posted on  THE SEARCH FOR KENJIRO'S GRANDMOTHERS .   The reason I reached back to "grandmothers" is that one rumor growing up was that one of my father's father's grandmother was a female s...

WE'RE BACK IN HONOLULU

But first:  MOSCOW/WASHINGTON/KYIV >> President Donald Trump said today that Russia and Ukraine “will immediately start negotiations” toward a ceasefire and an end to their three-year-old war, speaking after he held a call with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. Photos and a video about our departure from Vancouver on Air Canada. Air Canada Lounge cuisine of soup with beer, Bloody Mary, Johnny Walker Black Label on rocks and sparkling rosé. Our plane, showing snow still on Vancouver mountain on May 18. Airline meal. Final view of Canada. This is a weird photo of our plane right over Diamond Head. Returned home at 9:15PM.  Walked 3641 steps. Great night sleep.  So anyway, our 33-day trip was wonderful. We went to the Osaka Expo twice.   Amazingly enough, we won the lottery on both days, for we got to use their motor scooter each day.  FREE!!!  Four for four.  The odds of this happening had to be 100 to one for this to occur.   We st...