Dear Friends, It is Tara and my third Fluenciversary today! We started open communication three years ago. Wow! It is hard to believe all that has happened in these years, and hard to grasp all that it has meant. I still have a lot of processing of pre-fluency trauma and it is an ever unfoldingContinue reading “A Special Day”
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On a beautiful life
Dear Friends,I have started processing more feelings, and poetry has helped. Here is one I wrote on Tuesday. I am so grateful I can express my words. This is about looking through old photo albums in my uncle’s house in Hiroshima. Thank you to Tara for staying up so late taking photos of them. YourContinue reading “On a beautiful life”
In loving memory of my Papa
Dear Friends, Among all of my feelings from my trip, I also am all full of memories of my Papa as it was his birthday last weekend. The fourth without his physical presence. Wow, it is hard to grasp! I am so glad I was able to publish a book of my cherished poems inspiredContinue reading “In loving memory of my Papa”
Back to a new reality
Dear Friends, Well, it sure has been a while! And it feels like I have travelled and grown more than two weeks or farther than the span of the Pacific! So I am home in a spatial sense, but I feel as if I am somehow in a different place! I am still processing itContinue reading “Back to a new reality”
About to visit the motherland
Dear Friends, I am so absolutely excited to share that I am leaving this week to visit Japan! I was born there, and it is where I gained and lost speech. We moved to the US when I was just four, in large part to seek “treatment” for autism, the advice given to us inContinue reading “About to visit the motherland”
Sadness is heavy these days
Dear Friends, I have been feeling the heaviness of sadness lately. Not my own, but the sadness of the world. Tara has said the same. Today, she shared with me news of three people’s passing, not among our close loved ones but still so saddening. One was Christopher Finnes, a young man who was anContinue reading “Sadness is heavy these days”
Out and about
Dear Friends, Wow, thank you for your great response to my book! Today, Tara and I are out in North Park, one of my favorite neighborhoods in San Diego. We love the restaurants and coffee shops here! And I love being out and about like any other adult. I love wearing my blazer and coolContinue reading “Out and about”
Waves and Wind and We – Order now!
Dear Friends, It is now up for sale! Waves and Wind and We is my heartfelt book of poems. I am so proud to present it to you, and so eager for it to touch other lives. Please order if you can, and Unrestricted Interest is also offering a digital download for a lower price.Continue reading “Waves and Wind and We – Order now!”
On Love
Dear Friends, I had the most awful few days starting late last week. It was intense dysregulation, so overwhelming and aggressive, and it was scary. Such a letdown after three peaceful weeks. Then I asked for high CBD:THC gummies, which help calm me but also dull my mind, so I am averse to taking themContinue reading “On Love”
I jinxed it.
Dear Friends, Oh no! I am so upset to share that I impulsively shaved off my majestic beard yesterday morning. I am so frustrated, not only about the temporary loss of my beard, but also about this reminder that I can’t control my body. I know my apraxia is ever present in my reality, butContinue reading “I jinxed it.”
Danny With Words 