Year 2, 11Jul12

Happy belated birthday, Ichi! How time flies. You would have been 20yrs old yesterday. The precious memories of you are like a treasure chest in my mind. I hold tightly to them. Yet like the sands of time, some memories have begun to slip through my desperate fingers no matter how hard I try to catch every grain. Yesterday, I found myself extremely busy. I'm not sure if this was a consciously or subconsciously, but I was running from 7:30am through 7pm. I threw myself into tennis for 3 hours which I rarely do especially in the Tahoe afternoon heat. Physically I was drained after the end of the day. I fell instantly to sleep last night when I laid down. Was I trying to keep myself distracted to avoid the torrent of emotions I am being battered about now? Sounds like something I would do... Well...happy birthday girl. I hope you celebrated with g'pop, ni-ni, ree-ni, & the rest of the family. I love and miss you Ichi. Pops.