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Happy Friday! I’ve been loving all the coincidence stories from my giveaway<\/a>!\u00a0Yesterday, I was admiring the peonies you see here — I received them from a friend recently and remembered that her husband had the most extraordinary coincidence story: many years ago, he went to Kyoto, Japan via a research grant or some such (he’s an art history professor). He was wandering around alone one day and wanted to experience the non-touristy side of Kyoto and there, tucked in a quiet and obscured area, he found a hole-in-the-wall restaurant. Alas, his Japanese skills weren’t up to snuff so he couldn’t read the complicated menu. But lucky for him, through a lot of gestures and fragmented Japanglish, the restaurant proprietress informed him there was someone who spoke English in the restaurant at that moment. The English-speaking Japanese woman and my friend started chatting and a version of the following conversation ensued (he told me the story a while ago, so I’m paraphrasing):<\/p>\n

Her: Where are you from?<\/p>\n

Him: Oh, originally from Holland, but I live in Washington.<\/p>\n

Her: Washington! That is where Seattle is?<\/p>\n

Him: Yes! That’s the city I live in.<\/p>\n

Her: Amazing! I am visiting Seattle very soon! I’m going to be staying with a friend’s sister…I haven’t met her yet, but she sounds very kind to let me stay with her and her family.<\/p>\n

It turned out that the woman was, in fact, going to be staying at HIS house because the “sister” she was referring to was his wife (aka my friend who gave me the peonies – is that confusing?). How’s that for a remarkable coincidence?<\/p>\n

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Oh, before I forget, the giveaway winner is Arianna, who had run into\u00a0an old friend in a rest stop hundreds of miles away from her home.\u00a0Congrats!<\/p>\n

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Mentioning worker bees\/worker sows earlier this week and the peonies reminded me that I took this photo a couple of weeks ago. Busy little tikes, those bees were. I’m off to take a leaf from their book (flower?), and go meet some more deadlines.<\/p>\n

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Wishing you a fabulous weekend, friends! I feel like I’ve flooded you with words this week, and will just leave you with this very cool image above that my father-in-law sent me recently. This photo is from about 1920 and represents four generations of K’s lineage on M’s side of the family. Hearty German stock that diligently toiled on farms. Clockwise from top:\u00a0Luella Louise, Johanna Louise Hedwig (born 1832),\u00a0Mildred Louise (born 1917) and Emma Louise. They all have the same middle name, and three out of the four lived well into their nineties. In my father-in-law’s words: “From the date of the oldest lady\u2019s birth in 1832 until the death of the\u00a0youngest girl in July of 2013, one or more of these ladies were alive,\u00a0continuously, for about 181 years.” The youngest, Mildred, looks a tiny bit like K. So fascinating!<\/p>\n

Now I want to search<\/em>
\nfor photos of ancestry<\/em>
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Happy Friday! I’ve been loving all the coincidence stories from my giveaway!\u00a0Yesterday, I was admiring the peonies you see here — I received them from a friend recently and remembered that her husband had the most extraordinary coincidence story: many years ago, he went to Kyoto, Japan via a research grant or some such (he’s an art history professor). He was wandering around alone one day and wanted to experience the non-touristy side of Kyoto and there, tucked in a quiet and obscured area, he found a hole-in-the-wall restaurant. Alas, his Japanese skills weren’t up to snuff so he couldn’t read the complicated menu. But lucky for him, through a lot of gestures and fragmented Japanglish, the restaurant proprietress informed him there was someone who spoke English in the restaurant at that moment. The English-speaking Japanese woman and my friend started chatting and a version of the following conversation ensued (he told me the story a while ago, so I’m paraphrasing): Her: Where are you from? Him: Oh, originally from Holland, but I live in Washington. Her: Washington! That is where Seattle is? Him: Yes! That’s the city I live in. Her: Amazing! I am visiting Seattle very soon! I’m going to be staying with a friend’s sister…I haven’t met her yet, but she sounds very kind to let me stay with her and her family. It turned out that the woman was, in fact, going to be staying at HIS house because the “sister” she was referring to was his wife (aka my friend who gave me the peonies – is that confusing?). How’s that for a remarkable coincidence? Oh, before I forget, the giveaway winner is Arianna, who had run into\u00a0an old friend in a rest stop hundreds of miles away from her home.\u00a0Congrats! ********************************************************** Mentioning worker bees\/worker sows earlier this week and the peonies reminded me that I took this photo a couple of weeks ago. Busy little tikes, those bees were. I’m off to take a leaf from their book (flower?), and go meet some more deadlines. ********************************************************** Wishing you a fabulous weekend, friends! I feel like I’ve flooded you with words this week, and will just leave you with this very cool image above that my father-in-law sent me recently. This photo is from about 1920 and represents four generations of K’s lineage on M’s side of the family. Hearty German stock that diligently toiled on farms. Clockwise from top:\u00a0Luella Louise, Johanna Louise Hedwig (born 1832),\u00a0Mildred Louise (born 1917) and Emma Louise. They all have the same middle name, and three out of the four lived well into their nineties. In my father-in-law’s words: “From the date of the oldest lady\u2019s birth in 1832 until the death of the\u00a0youngest girl in July of 2013, one or more of these ladies were alive,\u00a0continuously, for about 181 years.” The youngest, Mildred, looks a tiny bit like K. So fascinating! Now I want to search for photos of ancestry kimono-clad folks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-life","7":"category-photography","8":"entry","9":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10137"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10165,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10137\/revisions\/10165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}