GUARDIANS AND SISTERS

Oh no! I just deleted the entire post! Let's try again....

I finished cleaning and straightening most of the house and Daddy's study so decided to start opening my boxes from Iwatsuki. Among the things were some old photographs my Dad had sent me decades ago. There were other astounding things, but I had to share these first.

Chinen-san, my favorite house help...my sister Janice, is pretending to wipe dishes with her, but I think the truth is she's just getting the towel dirty on the floor! That's Mommy playing the piano in the house we moved to. Yes, it's the same piano out in the living room now!

Joyce is only a year older than me--this is my favorite picture of my gazing at my big sister--and she was always protective of her little sisters, I think. Joyce, June, and Janice. We had a secret door knock; could sing a pharmacy commercial jingle, as well as a "Busy Rice-Eating Hen" song.

Some Christians think to be dedicated to God, you have to be serving "straight" all the time. Surprise. I don't think there's anything unspiritual about feeling the "fuzzies" every once in a while, and for that matter, I wonder if God Himself doesn't smile at our enjoyment of them when they come! Oh--this is the embroidery work Janice sent me quite a few years ago that I told you about, that made it through the '11 Quake...and has found its way down here to a wall of the house in Okinawa.