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Susan's avatar

You bring hope to us with every encounter. Such a kind and thoughtful person. And role model. Many blessings Patti. You give us so much of everything…peace sister.

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Aly's avatar
May 19Edited

Thank you for sharing this. I look at this thing that you do compared to the evil that’s going on right now with our administration such a vast and wide gap. I’d like to dream that someday everyone would take this journey or one like it.

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Susan's avatar

Just beautiful your day…thank you for allowing us to be part of your journey.

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peonyb's avatar

For Patti & Co. Title suggestion: “Gifts of the Crow” by John Marzluff & Tony Angell. — Assume most folks have read John Hersey’s “Hiroshima” but if not, it’s a must-read. I was fortunate to attend an event in Brooklyn, ten years ago, with two survivors, one of Nagasaki & the other of Hiroshima. Amazingly, upon shaking hands after their talks, each radiated warmth thru the exceptional softness of their hands, quite similar to the emanations of warmth & softness received shaking Elie Wiesel’s hand each November [great suffering, yet forgiveness?]. While I’m here, want to share an important read: scholar/ reporter The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum’s “Autocracy, Inc.” Her many pages of Notes at end are indispensable to getting a grasp of what democracies are up against globally. It’s the small format which is always so wonderful a reading experience.

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Fumi Amamiya's avatar

Thank you, Patti. (I'm a japanese)

I want to be like you too.

I feel powerless day after day for world tragedy.

It's especially painful to face the sins of one's own country.

I still don't know what to do. I keep thinking.

I love your voice, poem, and I respect your attitude.

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Simon Brooks's avatar

Patti,

Thank you for all you do.

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Deb's avatar

Breathtaking and solemn. Thank you Patti.

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Lisa Martin's avatar

Hi Patty, I was moved to see these images, especially of you and Keiko. I just read "When the Emperor Was Divine," a wonderful book by Julie Otsuka. It is a touching and intimate portrait of a Japanese-American family sent to the internment camps in the US during World War II. The family was rendered so tenderly, and it is absolutely shattering to think about how history is repeating itself today with our cruelty and xenophobia toward "the other." I think you would greatly enjoy the book if you haven't read it already. I wish you continued safe and peaceful travels in Japan. Peace, Lisa

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Darcy Bergh's avatar

I thank you for being there.

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Denik deBro's avatar

Worth remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Rhodora Javier's avatar

Beautiful!

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Olga's avatar

I didn’t know anything had remained standing at the epicenter. That building really looks like something from a post-apocalyptic film — and such a powerful reminder. Sadly, not everyone learns from history. But still... peace to us all.

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Gary Thiessen's avatar

Lovely

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Debbie P.'s avatar

Beautiful photos! what type of Polaroid camera do you use?

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Gigi Tierney's avatar

Beautiful and haunting photos

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catfish rushdie's avatar

Thank you! Thanks for going, and thanks for posting such a moving article.

I have seen in several reports that during the past eighteen months, the IDF has dropped the explosive equivalent of four Hiroshima bombs on the people of Gaza. This is our tax dollars at work.

And, I often remember the account that Lawrence Ferlinghetti gave of his visit to Nagasaki after the Fat Man bomb was dropped. During his visit he picked up a teacup from the ground, and saw that it had the remnants of human lips fused into the ceramic.

The human race is tired of being held hostage to Dr. Strangelove.

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