Ayumi Hino Gerads
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Everything I do, I do for LOVE. Writing is a way I express my love to the world. Thank you for reading my stories.
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Happy 22nd Birthday!
Happy birthday to my dearest son! 22 years ago, my life has changed 180° with the gift of life from the heaven. I love you for taking the risk with me. Thank you for choosing me as your mom; you being just you, is the greatest gift of all – to me and the people around you even if they don’t realize it.
By Ayumi Hino Gerads3 years ago in Poets
The truth of Covid
I have written about covid before in my story right around the time when most of the states had lifted their restrictions. To the best of my knowledge, Hawaii was the last state to do so. I finally traveled to see my son in CA in June 2022. Since I chose not to be vaccinated, my daily life was somewhat restricted, especially while the state required the vaccine passport to enter any government offices and restaurants.
By Ayumi Hino Gerads3 years ago in Psyche
Next Trans Fat: High Fructose Corn Syrup
Do you remember when first New York City banned Trans Fats from restaurants back in 2008? Now it’s not easy to find anything that lists TransFat on the labels of food packages or boxes. “No Trans Fat” become a permanent fixture if not underlined requirement to be on the market. Keep in mind though, that transfat under 0.5 mg in the product is allowed to say "No Transfat". So, there’s more reason to avoid processed foods. The bag of potato chips you finished last night while you are watching a movie, might have had Transfat even though it said "No Transfat" in the bag.
By Ayumi Hino Gerads3 years ago in Psyche
The Home of Zigo the Dragon
There weren’t always dragons in the valley. - So we thought. Manoa consists of the entire valley, only a few mile away from the hustle and bustle of downtown Honolulu, the capital of the Hawaiian Islands, there is a cave that no one ever returned once they entered. The Manoa valley and it’s vicinity is considered a tropical rainforest. The area receives the rainfalls daily, hence it’s richly vegetated. According to the legend, it is said that in last one hundred year at different point in time, 12 university students who had dared to prove it wrong never came out. Well, that was then- obviously it’s not true any longer now that I had come back.
By Ayumi Hino Gerads4 years ago in Fiction
Dear Mom
Dear Mom, It was back in 2006 when you wrote me a letter. I had carried that one for quite sometime with me. You have written to me often since we lived thousands miles away across the Pacific Ocean. Most of the letters were little things in life - where you went to have lunch with your best friend, what you did yesterday, or how you spent your Sunday.
By Ayumi Hino Gerads4 years ago in Confessions
“The Alchemist “ by Paulo Coelho
*The book I read was an English version of O Alquimisa, the Portuguese original edition, published in Brazil. For me, books have been often the window of knowledge, the catalyst, and the answer to many questions that no one can provide. They often come in as gifts from friends or members of family. Other times they get my attention, and invoke an urge to obtain them at the perfect timing to give me a hint or guidance on how I handle challenges and obstacles at that time.
By Ayumi Hino Gerads4 years ago in Humans
Short and Easy Spiritual Practice Everyday
I have been on my spiritual journey consciously for the last six years, but probably a couple of decades or more unconsciously. My spiritual journey began with my desire: the pursuit of happiness. Just like everyone else, I wanted to have a happy and content life by getting a job I wanted, making enough money to do things I wanted, finding someone to love and be loved, getting married, and having my own family I wanted…the list goes on and on…
By Ayumi Hino Gerads4 years ago in Psyche
