{Catching up with…} Yet another visit to grandpa Ichiro’s grave during the pregnancy + pandemic, plus get another photo of remarkable Ryoko gardening with her adorable baby belly.
For both of us to stay *active* and centred through all the commotion and concerns of life, we often visited grandpa’s grave for a conversation.
Each morning as I lingered in bed, this intrepid arborist would get up and work on various garden projects, or in this case, cutting down bamboo in the forest behind the house.
Epilogue: Updated July 17 from events on and around May 2… This turned out to be a very significant part of bringing our little guy into the world as he bears the same man and, shortly afterwards, grandpa’s widow died at 94 years old.
Note: Both of these topics are covered elsewhere in this archive and desire to be considered supporting evidence of a really strange but wonderful spring time, as such,…
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