All my life I didn’t like to do things over, rehash past events. Going through so many rough years with ill health and changing of lifestyles, for lack of better words, I tend to still live too much in the moment.
I am finally realizing life is very complex, and almost every little moment defines our current lives.
About the contributor: Norman Hayashi’s grandfather and granduncle opened the Hayashi Nursery in Oakland, CA in 1906. His grandfather was President of the California Flower Market in the early 1930s. The family was incarcerated in Tanforan and Topaz when Norm was two years old. After the War, they returned to find most of their property sold, so they began again. Norm’s dad Henry and Uncle Warren re-established the Hayashi Nursery in Union City in 1949. Norm took over the management in 1964 and ran it for almost 30 years.
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