Hi guys. This is episode number 48 and welcome to the Wabi Saobie podcast. I am Candice Kumai. Today we are going to be writing a letter to our grandparents.

If your grandparents are still alive, lucky you, please spend time with them and talk to them as much as you can right now.

And if they have passed, my grandmother was the last one to pass, sadly, a few years ago on my Japanese side, Baccham, rest in peace, at 96.

This episode is called Dear Grandma and Grandpa.

Here's how us millennials are doing. It provides a story and perspective into the context of what we're going through right now. And the perspective will help you to feel comforted

and part of a continuation of life. It will help you to feel like you are part of a natural

continuation that we are all supposed to be part of. And it's actually going to all be okay.

You're here, aren't you? And you're here as a byproduct of your grandparents.

I would like to start with telling you a little bit about grandma and grandpa on both sides of my

family. The Gwistowski's are from Poland. These are my

father's parents. I love them so much. My Bapcha and my Jadik. They came here on a boat when my dad was

around 10 and they worked hard. They were blue collar workers.

My uncle is a fire captain in the U.S. Air Force National Guard and, sorry, the Air Force, National

Guard and the Air Force.

And my dad was in the U.S. Navy.

And my dad also had another brother and sister who worked very hard.

All of them, including my grandparents,

worked with their hearts and their hands and their minds. And they, you know, took all kinds of work

from Stanley Tools to my grandmother cleaned the hospitals.

They are the epitome of what hard work from an East Coast immigrant family is like,

and I come from that.

My grandfather on the Polish side was also a prisoner of war.

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