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4 MIDWEEK APRIL 12, 2023
What’s your favorite smell?
Sparkling Personality
MRon Nagasawa is currently on leave. This column origi- nally ran Feb. 4, 2015.
y wife and I are on the back-end of our daugh- ter’s senior year in high school. That means our lives no longer belong to us and everything we
do seems to be in preparation of her graduation. Having already gone through this with our son, we actually don’t mind and are trying to savor all these precious moments. That, however, doesn’t mean there’s no stress.
BARRY VILLAMIL
Web Editor, Pearl City
“The wonderful smell of my neighbor frying bacon in the morning as the aroma makes its way through my living room window and fills my senses. Makes me really hungry, too!”
JOLYN KRESGE
Teacher, Kailua
“I love the smell of rain. It smells refreshing and calms me.”
CHRIS RUFF
Realtor-associate, Mililani
“Tom Ford’s Ombré Leather. I really like musky, leathery fragrances, but it’s also sweet. I got a sample of it and I was addicted.”
SHARON DIAS
Medical Office Manager, Honolulu
“Bacon frying in the morning. That means it’s the weekend.”
I’ve mentioned before that besides being the captain of the varsity cheerleading squad our daughter also plays on the girl’s varsity basketball team. She is one of three seniors on the team. Well, at one of the last home basketball games, it was senior night. So my wife was busy assembling flowers, lei and little gifts for the girls. She’s really great at doing those things.
My wife is a thoughtful and fully engaged mother for our kids and there is nothing she wouldn’t do for our daughter. One of the things the team encouraged for senior night
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LA Perspective Of Loss
oss is not always a loss. Whenever you face the loss of time, money, a relationship, a job or even an opportunity, keep in mind that it
could also be a time of necessary transformation. As undesirable as your situation may be, remember that blessings do emerge from crisis, and it’s up to you to find your personal blessing in it.
It could be that you need to be more appreciative of your work, your partner, your situation or your health. Or, maybe you need to change paths, and this is the only way it could have happened.
Trust that everything you need will come to you in exactly the right way and at exactly the right time — because it will. Every challenge you are going through right now is a gift delivered to you in an unrecogniz- able time capsule.
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was for people to make posters for the three senior girls. Nothing more had to be said to my wife, who is an ex- cellent crafter, something she learned from her late mother. In fact, I think when Ben Franklin Crafts runs low on craft supplies, in an emergency they contact my wife to replenish them. So the posters and all her materials were all over our bedroom. That includes my wife’s signature craft
supply — glitter.
When she was finished she had made three profession-
al-looking and fun posters for the girls. But our room looked like it was hit by a crafting blizzard with scraps of colored paper, material, pens, markers, glue and glitter everywhere. Naturally, she cleaned everything up with the exception of all the glitter, which even our Dyson vacuum cleaner could not completely get.
Oblivious to that fact, I went to bed that night as I would have to get up at 4 the next morning to get ready for my MMA Boot Camp training class. The next morning as I got dressed, I looked in the mirror and saw that I was covered head to toe in glitter. Glitter residue must have gotten under our sheets. I was pretty upset to the point where I woke up my wife.
She asked me what was wrong, to which I explained, “I’m blanketed in your glitter. There’s no way I can go to class like this — it looks like I’m covered in stripper’s body glitter.”
She replied, “First of all, what’s stripper’s body glitter? And second of all, how would you know?”
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