Who says three's a crowd?  For me, Mitchel and Lalyn... we had a great time together, spending New Year's Eve and Day... just the 3 of us!  We call this a wonderful "threesome affair"...a nice way to start 2009....in an "odd" way...

First our solo pics...

  @ Cima Restaurant before dinner

@ Cima before dessert

@ the HotSpot
  @ the Red's dancefloor

Now here comes Mitchel's solo...

looking at the bowl of mushroom brisque

   after dessert


bored at the HotSpot... "watching people sing Karaoke wasn't fun for me.. I'm just a kid!"



"aww, this is still boring"... at the dance floor of Red's cafe

Last but not the least... here's Lalyn's solos...

  @ Cima

  @ the HotSpot

  @ Red's

Duet with Mitch...


Duet with Lalyn



Finally... our trio ensemble!!



After our escapade @ the Pacific Palms, we drove to check out places that are still open...we came to a stop...
@ Nodajii, Colima Rd.




Warming up and having tea...while Mitch had Miso soup...




I said "two more bowls of Miso for Mitch please..."



Lalyn @ Nodajii... ready for the highlight...the countdown!



Here it is... our sushi new year!


The three of us went back home to sleep, and got ready for the next day's events!
(photos of us sleeping were deleted)




Off we go to the Rose Parade @ 6:30 am...



Just wasting time with Mitch... before parade started



Mitch and Lalyn amidst the crowd

   Oops!  Our threesome pic @ the Rose Parade.



Crowds gathering...whew... where's the threesome?




Nice shot of happy smokes!



Thanks for the street hotdog Lalyn!  The best I ever had in years!!!

    here's one...
    here's two
 
Oh here's the three knuckleheads.. hehehe



Three of us tired from the parade, coming home to West Covina we had to stop and have lunch at Thai Village...one of Mitchel's favorite restaurants.  Lalyn wasn't in this picture coz she was the one who took it (obviously, an oxymoron here)...
Our day didn't end here... we went to a birthday party at 7:00 pm... but that's not a threesome affair anymore, isn't it?  Overall, this is the best threesome affair I've ever had!

THE END...

          "So-called aging is not the deterioration of life, but the deterioration of our faith, our enthusiasm, our will to progress."  Happy xxth birthday my loving husband!!!

Kenji is....

  a wonderful person

 
a traveler


a consentious worker



an honest friend


a warrior



a family man


a great father


a loving husband

and best of all... Kenji is a God-fearing man...


HAPPY BIRTHDAY KENJI!!!!! WE LOVE YOU!!!!

The 7 Stages of Healing



    "The Healer's Way" to recover from physical or emotional injury.

I have used this line for decades: "When talking of human well-being all there is is love and love denied." It seems to me that all the emphasis on work in the world, without the balance of genuine love, leaves us deformed as hell. Without love, a person can become a magnificent work machine but have no kind of a life. On the other hand, a person whose solid foundation has been built by love automatically works to contribute to the fabric of society.

This is what brings us to the Hoop, my friend. Our topic is healing. The need for healing is created from the wound of love denied.
Study the Hoop I'm about to describe. See if it makes sense to you. Test it out on your own experience, the ultimate yardstick. Once you begin to recognize this process, this Hoop, you will find that you can jump in at any point and still not be lost. Any slice of life, any experience you encounter or come to recognize in yourself, will fit along one of the strands of this Hoop. Sit with it reverently, and it will tell you its secret.

Excerpted from The Healer's Way by Earnie Larsen (Conari Press, September 2007)

1. Get Started



  The most basic human need always takes priority. Our most basic need is for love and belonging, and healing is always about finding, or rediscovering, that central core, that island buried deep within all of us that is most of who we are. In terms of well-being, all there is is love and love denied.







2. Get Lost



     If the need to love and be loved is not adequately met, the individual can't develop. That's the essential meaning of the word "lost." Lost means not knowing where you are or where you are headed. Lost means sitting alone in the dark because there isn't a scrap of light anywhere to follow.







3. Get Hurt



    Once we get lost, we get hurt. We desperately try to cope, to cover up, each of us according to our different personalities. But in spite of that they are all just sticks thrown into the River, the restlessly ongoing effort to be found and so to find or rediscover what we were all made for.









4. Get Stuck



    Follow the Hoop and see what happens next: we get stuck. Stuck means "can't move". The dynamics of stuck invade our innermost parts and become familiar. Whether it's being abused in a relationship, dying around food in one way or another, filling our bodies with drugs, shutting down all feelings, surrendering to violent rage, or isolating or hiding. These behaviors become our pimps, so to speak, and we jump when they beckon.






5. Get Called



    How can there be healing if there is not first a call, an invitation to break through all the emotional and intellectual concrete holding us stuck in some dreary expression of diminished life? Any knock that invites us to move deeper into our humanity comes from the hand of God. The knock has a thousand different faces and forms, yet the invitation is the same. Once the call is heard, it is time to get up!





6. Get Up


  To "get up" means just that: you make a start. Getting up doesn't mean all of a sudden you turn into a world-class sprinter. It just means that you are standing up, like a tender blade of new grass, reaching for the sun. After the call, there is a getting up, but no one ever gets up alone. There is surely a part of this process that no one can do but us but the problem of love hunger simply can't be addressed alone.




7. Get Going



      Once we finally get up, once we see the wound and the systems that keep the wound active, the next step is to get going and keep going. By getting going, I mean just that: get moving and don't stop. That's the trick-keeping it up. An occasional companion on my morning walks says, "It's all practice. Simple as that. We are what we practice. You want to change something, practice it until you are there."