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What makes you feel nostalgic?
Queen Of Cups
IRon Nagasawa is on leave. This column originally ran Jan. 30, 2019.
f you were to ask my wife, I’m sure she would say that I have some pretty annoying bad habits. If you also threw the question to my daughter, she could probably
produce a spreadsheet of my bad habits for you.
It’s almost gotten to the point of it being a joke. For ex- ample, if I’m making a plate of food for myself, my wife and daughter will both stop and watch me in anticipation of my bad habit. That habit is this: Without even tasting the food, I just put it on my plate, grab a saltshaker and season it as if I were powdering a baby after a bath. If my doctor is
SERENA TAYLOR
Modeling Agency Owner, Honolulu
“My mom’s home cooking. It brings me back to my childhood instantly. It’s not just comfort food for my stomach — it’s comfort food for my soul.”
MERIT UEHARA
Entrepreneur, Kāne‘ohe
“Music evokes the most nostalgic vibes for me. Especially the 2000s throwbacks I grew up with.”
TERI OSUMI
Coordinator, Waipahu
“Mangoes. Our family had a tree in our backyard,
and I spent my childhood summer days picking mangoes and raking up leaves. We’d eat mangoes all types of way — green, pickled or, my favorite, cold and perfectly ripe.”
NOLAN HONG
Videographer, Pearl City
“Anytime I see a corded landline telephone (which is usually only at a kūpuna’s house). It reminds me of those hourslong phone calls I had every night in high school with friends. What were we talking about? No idea.”
reading this, then I made this story up.
Anyway, after literally turning all my food into the degree
of saltiness of lomi salmon, my wife will cry out, “Ron, you didn’t even taste it first! It doesn’t need salt!” Our daughter will then chime in, “Yeah, Dad!” Seriously, this same sce- nario occurs nearly every time we eat. I immediately go into defense mode. The only way to deflect this is to bring up one of their bad habits. I’ll say, “So what? You guys never put your cups away!” It’s true. On any given day there are glasses, straw cups and coffee cups in various rooms of our house. They always have some fluid still in them, and it baffles me as to why there are so many.
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MValuing Yourself
any of the questions I receive are focused on the future, particularly on the timing of certain events. People often ask me when
they will find love, when things will improve, or when they will have more money, time or energy. Having a clear timeline somehow makes us feel more secure.
While every situation is unique, when it comes to love, this is what I know to be true: Loving yourself is crucial if you want to be loved by another. No one will accept a relationship that is worse than the one they have with themselves.
Life is a mirror, and everything is a reflection of our relationship with ourselves. If you don’t give yourself time, you won’t have time. If you don’t value yourself, money will have a hard time finding you, and so on. It always has, and always will, begin and end with you.
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Our daughter is the culprit when it comes to glasses of water. She will dispense water into a glass, drink a few sips and then leave it on a surface near wherever she was sitting. Instead of finishing that water, she will move to another seat, get another new glass of water and drink a few sips. I’ll complain, but it falls on deaf ears as the next day, the glasses are all over the place like a dive bar at closing time. My wife has a whole different set of cup habits. In the morning, she will make herself a hot cup of coffee and then get ready for work, by which time the coffee is cold. She pops the cup into the microwave, but forgets about it.
When I get home that evening, I’ll want to warm up my dinner, but when I open the microwave, there’s her leftover cup of coffee. I’m about to dump it in the sink when she will say, “Don’t do that, I’m still going to drink it!” Or I’ll come home and find a drive-thru coffee cup on the counter. I’ll open the lid and see that there’s only a quarter-inch of coffee at the bottom of the cup. I’m about to toss it out when my wife will say, “Hey, I’m still drinking that!” I’ll exclaim, “That’s only coffee vapor in there!” To which she grabs it away from me and puts it in the microwave. That’s my cue to grab myself a cup filled with a beverage made in Scotland.
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