Twelve years old brave and smart. After Pearl Harbor our family was torn apart. I am a Japanese American. Away to the barracks in the desert. I am a Japanese American. A young Mohave boy I soon meet. My first real friend who is unique. Our camp is why he is so angry. Our campsite is his tribal land. I am a Japanese American.

Day and night; high and low. Invited to a party; uninvited because I am different. Peaceful living; war attacks. Living at home; living in camps. Beautiful flowers; brown dirt. Having no friends; meeting a Mohave boy. Dealing with racial and political change; finding true friendship. Having very little; owning a flower shop. Day and night; high and low.

Land of Lisa Lail Likes and Loves. Land of Lisa Lail Likes and Loves. Like a butterfly she was trapped in a cocoon. She wanted to float and fly away. Her family was treated like a poison worm, unwanted. Still she made it through anyway. In the end her cocoon opened. The beautiful butterfly flew away. She will fly to her flower shop.

Sumiko looked out the window. The tattered pieces of cheesecloth. Far away she could see the flower fields. Mr Ono believed in the future,. And he liked to say that inventions. Were the foundation of the future. To try to force some chrysanthemums. Other farmers used lights too,. But he said his lights were special. He also had developed a special strain. Of chrysanthemums that was much.

Let your imagination go WILD by reading a book! Quick and gentle hands. Mayu meaning cocoon, transformation. The wings of the moth spread across the sky. Posted October 28, 2010 by cindymakra. Skillful, creative, inquisitive, confident. Elias and Flora Disney, parents; Lilly Bounds, wife; Diane and Sharon, daughters. Lover of invention, laughs, helping. Who feels happiness, satisfaction, love. Who finds happiness in making others laugh. Who needs the impossible to be possible.

Like everyone was looking at you. Like nobody was looking at you. Sent away out of sight. Like you were just about to cry.

Posted by dulakl in Assignment. A father left everything he owned to his first son. The men bathed in order of age. Dinner as never over until Jiichan stopped chewing. Steeped in the culture of haji, shame. Not the Buddhist way to pray for something specific for yourself. Posted by dulakl in Assignment. Who finds happiness in sin.

Sumiko knewwhat it felt like to be lonely,. Sumiko knewwhat it felt like to be different,. Becauseshe was the only Japanese girl in her class. Sumiko knewwhat it felt like to be humiliated,. Whenshe was sitting alone on the bench. Sumiko knewwhat it felt like to love and be loved,. Whenshe was at home with her family and flowers. Sumiko knewwhat it felt like to have dreams,. After allit was all she knew.

A Chair For My Mother. Frog and Toad are Friends. Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf. The 39 Clues, The Maze of Bones. The Magic School Bus in the Haunted Museum. The Sign of the Beaver. The Watsons Go To Birmingham.

Weedflower Poem for two voices. November 4, 2010 by jhgissy. October 27, 2010 by jhgissy. Sumiko feels the ultimate boredom. There was nothing to see.