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? . . 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. . . 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 . . . (at Madrona) https://www.instagram.com/p/CR-3fCbrB9M/?utm_medium=tumblr
