Opening Night
By Eleanor Klock
December 10, 2025
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Gifting! It is a joy and also quite a job! Reading this brings tears to my eyes, as a mother of three who have spent a few months to five years living in their heritage home of Japan. I lived there in the 70s a few months, again in the 80s five years, now go 2 or 3x a year guiding small groups and I've seen many changes~ one is an increase in diversity. Living alongside families from many Asian nations, is common. We celebrate hearing Tagalog, Nepalese, and more at shops and schools. Japanese also have the tradition of gifting after travelling... it can be a burden with a big family, extending into cousins and their children, but of course one cannot forget or leave out anyone...! Loving and living alongside each other is a job, and a joy.
Susan Tanabe | January 2026 | Salem, Oregon
Nicely done! I happened to be in Batangas last month when my wife’s kin excitedly dove into the balikbayan box she had lovingly assembled and then sent a couple months prior. What a fine tradition!
Kevin Wrede | December 2025 | Portland Oregon
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