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Gloria Stuart: Longest living bonsai enthusiast in Los Angeles

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Actress Gloria Stuart, longest living bonsai enthusiast in Los Angeles, appears at the Nanpukai bonsai display in the Nisei Week Japanese Festival on August 22 in Little Tokyo. She pauses before her bonsai tree, a French black oak forest which she planted in 1982. (Cultural News Photo)
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Gloria Stuart: Longest living bonsai enthusiast in Los Angeles

 
Cultural News, 2010 September Issue
 
As her 100-year-old celebration surprise, actress Gloria Stuart, longest living bonsai enthusiast in Los Angeles, was admitted as an honorary member of the Nanpukai, the most prestigious bonsai club in the U.S. Her French black oak forest was displayed at the Nisei Week Festival's bonsai show on August 21 and 22 at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Downtown Los Angeles. 
 
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Lecture - Legacy of John Naka: Father of Bonsai in America- Nibei Foundation, Sept 7
Bonsai master John Naka (Photo by Larry Ragle)
Bonsai John Naka
 
Nibei Foundation / Japan Study Club Lecture Series
 
September 7 (Tuesday), 6:30 PM
Subject: Legacy of John Naka: Father of Bonsai in America
Speakers: Larry Ragle and Nina Ragle
 
John Y. Naka
 
John Y. Naka was born in Ft. Lupton, Colorado, August 16, 1914.
 
In 1922, upon the passing of John's grandmother, his family, all but his eldest
brother, returned to the family farm in Kurume, Japan.
 
It was at his grandfather's farm that he saw bonsai. His grandfather taught him the principles of bonsai and together they spent hours playing iroha card games featuring proverbs and working on trees.
 
The seed was planted. He studied garden and landscape design and, in 1935, was accepted to study at a prestigious art school. However, the family sensed impending hostilities, sent Naka, now 21 and of draft age, back to Colorado that year to live with his brother. There, he met and married his wife, Alice.
 
In 1946, the Nakas, now a family of 5, moved to Los Angeles where John started a business of landscape gardening. There he was re- introduced to bonsai and soon joined together with 4 other enthusiasts to form, what would become, the California Bonsai Society.
 
Naka has taught bonsai in Australia, Spain, Italy, Mexico, South America, India and the Philippines.
 
Naka is the author of Bonsai Techniques I, Bonsai Techniques II  (both in print in 6 languages) and co-authored Bonsai Techniques for Satsuki, with Richard Ota and Keko Rokkaku.
 
Mr. Naka was the recipient of: the Japanese government medal, the Fifth Class of the Order of the Rising Sun; the National Heritage Foundation award, Japanese American Cultural and Community Center ward; and dozens of awards from national and international bonsai organizations. 
 
Naka passed away on May 19, 2004. Alice Naka resides in Los Angeles.
 
Speakers: Larry Ragle
 
Larry Regle started his first three bonsai in 1962. The trees are still alive. He studied with John Naka and Harry Hirao. Harry and Larry created KoFu Bonsai Kai in 1976. Mr. Ragle is the president of California Bonsai Society and a member of Nan Pu Bonsai Kai, John Naka's select club.
 
In 1983 Larry and Nina Ragle founded California Aiseki Kai, a suiseki-viewing stone club. He
is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Bonsai Foundation. He is a past president of Golden State Bonsai Federation and of KoFu Kai. In 2007 Larry and Nina studied Keido Display in Japan with Uhaku Sudo and were certified to teach tokonoma and table top displays.
 
Mr. Ragle presented the eulogy and his history at Mr. Naka.
 
Mr. Ragle is a graduate of U. C. Berkeley - forensic science. He is the author of Crime Scene, Harper-Collins, 1995- 2nd Ed. 2002.
 
Speakers: Nina Ragle
 
Nina Ragle interests are suiseki-viewing stone and formal display. She is the editor of California Aiseki Kai's award wining newsletter. She is the author of Even Monkeys Fall Out of Trees, John Naka's Collection of Japanese Proverbs, Nippon Art Forms, 1987
 
Mrs. Ragle is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin in major of Philosophy
      
Japan Study Club Program: September 7, 2010
Reception and dinner at 6:30 pm followed by presentation at 7:30 pm.
Admission including dinner: $10 per person. Reservation required for seats and dinner.
RSVP by email japanstudies@nibei.org by Friday, September 3. www.nibei.org

The program will be held at Terasaki Foundation Laboratory Building, 11570 Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90064.
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He Said-She Said: Should the Past Stay in the Past? -- September 3, 2010

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Fear of What's Next
by Max Lucado

"I am going away" ( John 14:28).

Imagine their shock when they heard Jesus say those words. He spoke them on the night of the Passover celebration, Thursday evening, in the Upper Room. Christ and his friends had just enjoyed a calm dinner in the midst of a chaotic week. They had reason for optimism: Jesus' popularity was soaring. Opportunities were increasing. In three short years the crowds had lifted Christ to their shoulders . . . he was the hope of the common man.

And now this? Jesus said, "I am going away." The announcement stunned them. When Jesus explained, "You know the way to where I am going," Thomas, with no small dose of exasperation, replied, "No, we don't know, Lord. We have no idea where you are going, so how can we know the way?" ( John 14:4-5 NLT).

On the eve of his death, Jesus gave his followers this promise: "When the Father sends the Advocate as my representative—that is, the Holy Spirit—he will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I have told you. I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don't be troubled or afraid" (John 14:26-27 NLT).

As a departing teacher might introduce the classroom to her replacement, so Jesus introduces us to the Holy Spirit. And what a ringing endorsement he gives. Jesus calls the Holy Spirit his "representative."

The Spirit comes in the name of Christ, with equal authority and identical power. Earlier in the evening Jesus had said, "I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever" (John 14:16 NIV).

Jesus' promise: allos—"another one just like the first one." And who is the first one? Jesus himself. Hence, the assurance Jesus gives to the disciples is this: "I am going away. You are entering a new season, a different chapter. Much will be different, but one thing remains constant: my presence. You will enjoy the presence of 'another Counselor.' "

Can you see how the disciples needed this encouragement? It's Thursday night before the crucifixion. By Friday's sunrise they will abandon Jesus. The breakfast hour will find them hiding in corners and crevices. At 9 a.m. Roman soldiers will nail Christ to a cross. By this time tomorrow he will be dead and buried. Their world is about to be flipped on its head. And Jesus wants them to know: they'll never face the future without his help.

Nor will you. You have a travel companion. When you place your faith in Christ, Christ places his Spirit before, behind, and within you. Not a strange spirit, but the same Spirit: the parakletos. Everything Jesus did for his followers, his Spirit does for you. Jesus taught; the Spirit teaches. Jesus healed; the Spirit heals. Jesus comforted; his Spirit comforts. As Jesus sends you into new seasons, he sends his Counselor to go with you.

God treats you the way one mother treated her young son, Timmy. She didn't like the thought of Timmy walking to his first-grade class unaccompanied. But he was too grown-up to be seen with his mother. "Besides," he explained, "I can walk with a friend." So she did her best to stay calm, quoting the Twenty-third Psalm to him every morning: "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life . . . "

One day she came up with an idea. She asked a neighbor to follow Timmy to school in the mornings, staying at a distance, lest he notice her. The neighbor was happy to oblige. She took her toddler on morning walks anyway.

After several days Timmy's little friend noticed the lady and the child.
"Do you know who that woman is who follows us to school?"
"Sure," Timmy answered. "That's Shirley Goodnest and her daughter Marcy."
"Who?"
"My mom reads about them every day in the Twenty-third Psalm. She says, 'Shirley Goodnest and Marcy shall follow me all the days of my life.' Guess I'll have to get used to them."

Fearless BookYou will too. God never sends you out alone. Are you on the eve of change? Do you find yourself looking into a new chapter? Is the foliage of your world showing signs of a new season? Heaven's message for you is clear: when everything else changes, God's presence never does. You journey in the company of the Holy Spirit, who "will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I have told you" (John 14:26 NLT).

From Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear
Copyright (Thomas Nelson, 1985, 2004) Max Lucado

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