Perhaps we all had not accepted that grandpa was going to go; perhaps we all knew it would happen but not yet. We all gathered around him and we…
June 5th. We received an early morning call just like the other days; but this one was different. We rushed to the hospital and we all gathered around grandpa. His vitals lower than…
We visited grandpa that afternoon as we’ve been doing for the past couple of days; each day his vitals would decline, each phone call from the hospital heavier than the last. The day was June 2nd.
Dinner time was close so we stopped at Omodakaya, a quaint ramen restaurant run by my mother’s calligraphy student back in the day. We laughed and enjoyed the lady’s floral knowledge…
We mostly sat in silence, enjoying the birds sing and the wind coming from the open shōji, Japanese sliding doors; a mostly chilly day under the shade, but hot under the untamed sun. The day was June 1st.