Sep.17 is sad day to me.....

Today Sep.17 is a truly sad day for me.  

First Sep.17 is my late dad’s birthday. Here’s the film camera I just kept in the closet. 1987 my sisters and I gave him this camera for his last birthday gift. In his later years he sometimes enjoyed going out to take pictures of historical buildings around Tokyo.  Although we knew he would never go out to take pictures we decided to gave him such an expensive camera. At the time he was hospitalized to take anticancer drugs because the doc gave us a few months to live. He looked so happy when he got the camera and took my mom with it. But he’s passed away two weeks later. We hoped he would get better a bit more and could go out for taking photos but it was unattainable dream for us.

(↑Cam we gave our dad for his last birthday.... I just tried to adjust the date but unfortunatelly the date can varied until 2019 )

Also Sep.17 was the death anniversary of my uncle who died in the WWⅡ. I heard he loved the music and dearly loved her younger sister - my mom.  He was dead of disease in the island of Luzon of Philippine at age 21 before one year in 1944 one before war-end. There were many Japanese soldiers who die of hunger on South East Asian beautiful islands . He was too young to die and he would have had a lot of things to do. I really become teary every time I think of him.  He looked almost exactly like my mom.

(↑my late uncle, before when he was forced to entered the army age at 21 )

 

And one more… 

Sep.17 was the birthday of Bonnie Rayborn, my old friend in Texas.   I haven't heard from her for a long time and I tried to send her birthday message through facebook. And I knew she’s passed away last December.    

I still remember the first time I met her in maybe 1996.  I and my wife arrived Dallas TX on weekend. We had a plan to visit the guitar show and some more antique shows there. But on the day  I and my wife arrived Dallas TX we have nothing particularly to do on the weekend. When I checked out the antique malls or toy stores on phone books at a phone booth I found out the name “Bonnie’s Doll” on it and I called and asked her if we would be able to visit her store on the day. She said she didn’t have a store but she had many dolls for sale and she said OK to stop by.  So we visited her home and some dolls from her. She was vary good to us even though the day we visited was holiday. I believe she and her husband, Kenneth were watching football on couch, — she was a big fan of Dallas Cowboys. I told them that we were so sorry but we visited their home on such a holiday, but they smiled and welcomed us. After that Bonnie and for a long time I’ve kept contact with her by phone calls or sending faxes each other and I did business with her and she found out a lot of quality vintage dolls for me. She sent us greeting card every year and she was pretty good at curving writing and still have those. Of course I still keep some nice old dolls from her. Just once or twice we reunited at Marl and Joe’s Barbie shows.  

(↑the day we visited Bonnie's home for the first time )

(↑ At some Barbie doll show in Texas - Bonnie, Kitty and me )

I really wanted to see her once more and talked a lot about dolls and family. We want to send our love to her family and friends. 

Rest in Peace, Bonnie….