Haruki Kazuko

ESP 1 JAP 0 not yet halftime . . Hana my wife is at LAX now and Tokyo . . ¿Soon? . . not really soon it’s a very long flight . . the Pacific is bigger than the Atlantic making trans Pacific flights long 4 ppl like me who oversimplify by thinking it’s the same as an NYC Europe flight . . there will b a private final ceremony 4 my late mother-in-law Kazuko and my late father-in-law Haruki . . w ashes contacting the land of their births . . eye’ll participate in a private emotional process of my own . . each were awesome ppl . . ¿Haruki? Rock Star cool a Japanese creative graduate fr a top Japanese university who invested aaaaallllll of his professional energy in Europe . . his early attraction to Europe’s renaissance and Europe’s architecture predetermined his adult country of residence . . . eye’ve seen many pics of his work including his most famous client the late Krizia . . Haruki was also the subject of 7 Japanese . . he was 1 of 7 Japanese educated creatives who made Italy their adult home . . Kazuko has a less bling resume as a homemaker and a gr8 1 . . the Miyajima kitchen menu took a full month 2 repeat . . almost all dishes were Italian . . Kazuko and Haruki were gr8 2 me . . a fax on my wedding day . . my lead up 2 my big day w Hana included me telling nobody . . only a ltr 2 my now deceased son, David in the hours after eye married Hana, . . . a month later David asked: don’t u think u shud tell ¿Grandma? . . that month must have been a struggle 4 him . . and tho eye admit w out resistance my dad resume was only good until it wasn’t . . yet that moment was fatherhood perfection . . David was old enough . . and he got an exclusive . . . a heavy burdensome piece of news . . gr8 test . . he passed . . David’s death 4ever prevents me from knowing his thots that month . . yet eye smile thinking of his mental calisthenics leading 2 me telling my mom . . smiling now . . and will always returning 2 that moment . . feeling settled w Haruki and Kazuko ashes go ing 2 the land of their births

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