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4 MIDWEEK DECEMBER 7, 2022
What’s your favorite type of cookie?
RWalk In Her Shoes
ecently, my brother-in-law, his wife and their 17-year- old daughter came to Hawai‘i from Washington state to celebrate Thanksgiving with us. All of my wife’s
siblings live on the mainland, so it’s a real treat when they visit us.
Of course, it was great to see them, especially their daughter, whom we’ve seen grow up from an infant to a now beautiful and athletic young woman. We reminisce about the times they visited when she was a little girl and she and our daughter would put on a show to entertain us. She is eight years younger than our daughter, so the show was great fun with singing, dancing and hula.
KANIELA KIMURA
Real Estate Adviser, Honolulu
“White chocolate macadamia nut because it’s the perfect balance of sweet and salty, while still being totally delicious.”
CORINA QUACH
Content Creator, Honolulu
“Brown butter toffee chocolate chip cookie from Buzzfeed Tasty. It has ooey, gooey pockets of toffee and chocolate in a thick, chewy, nutty, caramelized cookie base. It’s the definition of a perfect cookie to me.”
MICHAEL MILLER
Director of Operations, Waikīkī
“Oatmeal gumdrop cookie. They remind me of my mom and grandmother. Although they’ve since passed, the recipe lives on and every once in a while the elusive, rare oatmeal gumdrop cookie can be found during the holidays.”
VICTORIA CUBA
News Producer, Kaka‘ako
“Chocolate chip. I love chocolate, and these cookies are always nice and warm. It tastes like home.”
In 2022, the two girls now have a lot more in common, namely a love for makeup and shoes. We were having dinner one evening when their conversation turned to shoes — ath- letic shoes, that is. They were throwing out all kinds of brands and proprietary names that went right over my head.
They gushed about Nike Dunks and shoes by the brand of Golden Goose. My daughter even hinted that she would like a pair of Nike Pandas for Christmas. So, I made a mental note for the next time my wife and I go Christmas shopping. I looked the shoes up online only to see that they were sold out pretty much everywhere. I also saw that they averaged $300 and up for a pair!
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Perspective Changes L Everything
ong before being called to my current path, I was drawn to the Rev. Paul Osumi’s column, “Today’s Thought.” It appeared daily in the Ho-
nolulu Advertiser from 1957 to 1993. I am sure many of you remember his wise words.
I found his column when I moved to Hawai‘i in 1989 and loved it. How neat it is that 20 years later, thanks to MidWeek, I can do something similar.
The other day, I was thinking that after nine years and almost 500 articles, how hard it is to come up with con- tent. However, after I found out last week that the Rev. Osumi had written more than 8,500 articles before he retired, my perspective and awareness shifted. To match that, I would have to write for another 150 years at my current pace. Perspective changes everything.
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Gone are the days of getting her shoes from Payless. Look- ing back on it, our daughter has always been into footwear, even when she was a little girl. We’d go to the Slipper House at Ala Moana Center, where they had blingy shoes for little girls, even some with heels. This past weekend, my wife had to stop into Nordstrom to pick something up. I was walking by the women’s shoes and saw that they had some Golden Goose athletic shoes.
If you don’t know what they are, they are distressed shoes in a similar way that jeans are with premade rips and tears. They looked like they were coated with Elmer’s Glue and then rolled in glitter. They were dirty and I thought I even saw some with duct tape on them. Then I looked at the prices, which were upward of $600!
I told my wife that I could probably make those shoes my- self. I really don’t get our current culture. Like I still don’t un- derstand how NFTs work and how a digital picture of a cartoon gorilla is worth millions. Nor how a banana duct taped to a wall is considered high art and goes for a seven-digit cash figure.
I guess I’m just a regular middle-class dad who wouldn’t know a Dogecoin if it bit me in the ... but just in case, I’m renting a safety deposit box at our bank and locking up a pair of dirty tennis shoes I still have from high school.
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