Theo Nakagawa-Reed
Dad
parent of Theodore
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32 records, oldest first2021
Apr 17
2024
Jan 7
birthdays
jan 27 dad
jan 30 kofi
feb 11 maren
apr 12 obaachan
may 16 aunt colleen
jul 19 dez
aug 30 jiichan
sep 3 mom
oct 2 priya
nov 9 hana
dec 14 lu
mine mar 22. miso "june 1" (made up by the shelter)
Jun 15
addresses, for forms
- 3318 Brackenmere Ave S, Apt 3, Mpls 55406. june 1 2024 to now. landlord Gail Hedlund, Fourgable Properties, 612-555-0106
- 2609 Wexcombe Ave S, Apt 204, Mpls 55408. aug 1 2022 to may 31 2024. Corbel Residential, leasing office 612-555-0172. rent 1,480, my half 740. w/ Maren
- 3127 Halloran Ave S, Mpls 55407. aug 15…
Jun 29
where the paper is
- ss card + birth certificate: NOT HERE. mom & dad's, grey filing cabinet in the hall closet, folder THEO - IMPORTANT
- passport: desk drawer, left, the envelope w/ the yen
- car title, signed lease, miso's adoption papers: flat file, top drawer, blue folder
- diploma: the tube behind the flat file
- tax returns: Deb…
Jul 20
heard at the stand this week
"it only makes the noise when I pedal" (it is the pedal)
"I don't need gears, I'm not that kind of person"
kid, maybe 6, to Walt: "are you the bike's doctor or its dad"
guy returning a helmet: "it made me look like I was going to be careful"
Nov 22
Mom & dad's wifi
Nov 28
thanksgiving at Aunt Colleen and Marcel's. eleven people. Marcel's nephew Théo…
…(accent, so we are Theo and Théo, he's nine and thinks this is the funniest thing that has ever happened) made me draw his dog four times until the ears were right.
Colleen looks like dad around the eyes when she's listening. she asked about Jiichan's fall before I brought it up, so dad must have told her, so it's a…
Dec 11
xmas, budget 150 total, not going home this year (flights are 600+)
mom: the heron print framed. frame from the thrift store, cut a new mat
dad: wool socks
hana: drawing of her dog-patients wall? ask for photos. + the hot sauce she likes from the co-op
obaachan + jiichan: a drawing of their persimmon tree from the photo on my phone. ink. mail by the 14th
dez: knife sharpening gift cer…
Dec 25
christmas here. didn't go home, the flights were over six hundred and december…
…was already built out of portrait money.
video call at ten their time. everyone at mom and dad's except Jiichan, who has been in the hospital since sunday with pneumonia. they say he's responding to the antibiotics. Obaachan held the phone too close so I mostly talked to her forehead. she had on the brooch. Hana car…
2025
Feb 10
mom called at 4:50 her time sunday. Jiichan died this morning. logistics:
- flight: tues 2/11, MSP 6:05am -> DEN -> SMF 11:40am. back wed 2/19, SMF 1:15pm -> MSP 8:50pm direct. 512.40 on the card. mom wants to pay, said no
- hana picks me up
- funeral sat 2/15 11am at the temple, then the lunch after in the hall
- wed + thurs: help mom w/ the photo boards, dad is doing the program
- I say s…
Feb 13
(at mom and dad's, in my old room.) I'm walking from the front door to the mail…
…box and counting. I get to forty-one and I'm not there. forty-two, forty-three. the mailbox is the same distance away every time I look up. the driveway is longer or my steps are shorter. his slippers are on the porch behind me, side by side, pointed out.
Feb 16
Sacramento. sunday night, in my old room, with the glow stars still on the ceil…
…ing. the funeral was yesterday. I want to get the week down before it turns into a story I tell.
tuesday. Hana picked me up at the airport and we didn't say anything until the freeway and then she said "he asked for you" and I said "I know, mom told me" and she said "no, before that. all week. he kept asking if you…
Feb 17
things Obaachan said this week
- she met him at a picnic for the church in 1961. he was fixing someone's car radio in the parking lot instead of eating. she brought him a plate and he said thank you without looking up, and she took the plate back. "then he looked up."
- they married in 1962. the persimmon tree went in the week mom was born (1966).…
Mar 22
27. worked ten to five, first properly busy saturday of the year, every bike in…
…south Minneapolis came out of a garage with two flat tires. Lu put a candle in a patch kit.
pho after with Dez and Priya. Priya gave me a book of Hasui's snow prints she found used. I didn't know anyone knew I wanted that.
mom called. Obaachan has moved in with them as of last weekend, into my room, which is funny,…
Jun 20
- pho on Nicollet, #14 extra herbs, $13
- somali spot by the shop, sambusa 2 for $3
- ember & rye: family meal 3:45 if dez sneaks me in
- the diner w/ the hash browns
- mom & dad: the walleye place by the falls
Nov 17
dad's knee replacement tomorrow, right knee, 7:30 check-in. mom's off all week.…
…walker ~2 weeks then a cane
mom says don't fly out
send him the national parks jigsaw
11/18: out by 10, went fine
Nov 18
dad's knee surgery was this morning. I was at the shop pretending to sort brake…
…pads by compound, phone face up on the bench. Ines noticed and didn't say anything and took the customers.
mom texted at 12:10 my time: "out. went fine. he's asking for a sandwich." then a photo of him giving a thumbs up with the wrong thumb, the one with the IV in it.
called at six. he was loopy and delighted. he…
Nov 23
dad is in my apartment with his clipboard and tape measure, doing an estimate.…
…he measures the bay window, the radiator, then Miso, nose to tail. he writes each number down. there's a heron in the kitchen and he measures that too, wingspan, and says "you're losing a lot of heat through this." he's walking fine. no cane. I want to point that out and don't, in case saying it undoes it.
Dec 14
going HOME. sat 12/20 to sun 12/28. first time since february.
gifts (budget 200):
- mom: the map print from the Pilcrow book, signed, + coffee (Loon)
- dad: the 2000 piece jigsaw of old radios + coffee (Chickadee)
- hana: a framed drawing of her cat Udon
- obaachan: the 41 steps zine, and I'll read it to her. + new brush pens, she's started doing his sunday painting
pack: sketch…
Dec 21
home. got in yesterday afternoon. sixty degrees and everyone in jackets.
dad met me at the door without the cane, on purpose, standing very straight. he walked me to the car and back to show me. mom rolled her eyes behind him and then hugged me so hard my glasses went sideways.
the house is different. Obaachan's in my old room, so I'm on the fold-out in the den with the humming fish tank.…
Dec 27
Obaachan's ozoni. she made it early bc I leave tomorrow and "you cannot start a…
…year without it, so you will start it now." written at her elbow, she measures nothing, these are my guesses
this is the Kansai kind her mother made (her family was from Wakayama too): WHITE miso broth, ROUND mochi, not grilled. Jiichan's family did the same. dad's side would have clear broth, she says, "if they had…
Dec 27
last night here. flying back tomorrow at noon. writing in the den with the fish.
the week. I want all of it.
Obaachan gets up at five and I've been getting up with her, which nobody asked me to do. she sweeps the patio in the dark, the same strokes, and then she makes tea and sits at the kitchen table and paints. she started in the spring. his brushes, his ink stone, the cheap newsprint not the g…
2026
Mar 19
looked at listings last night for two hours. I'm staying. the math isn't close.…
…the bay window is worth 55 dollars. so is Gerald.
mom called this afternoon, out of nowhere, on a thursday. Hana had told her about the cat, which means Hana had told her about the car, which means everyone knows the whole month. mom said "your father and I would like to help" in the voice she uses for parents at th…
May 2
before mom + dad
- bathroom
- the fiddle leaf (hide? compost?)
- oil the door hinge
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May 15
MOM + DAD HERE thurs 5/21 to mon 5/25. first time either of them sees the apart…
…ment.
flights: in thurs 3:50pm, out mon 12:40pm. they're staying at Colleen + Marcel's in St Paul (I have one bed and a cat)
- thurs: pick up, dinner at Colleen's
- fri: I work 11-3 (swapped w/ Oskar). they want to see the shop. warn Walt
- fri eve: my place. okonomiyaki. clean the bathroom
- sat: farmers market, the…
May 24
they leave tomorrow. mom and dad, in Minneapolis, in my apartment, for the firs…
…t time in the two years I've lived here and the ten I've lived in this city. writing it now while it's all still loud.
thursday I picked them up in the car and dad got in the front and looked at the dash for a while and said "no air conditioning" and I said no, and he rolled the window down by hand and put his elbow…
May 29
dad is on a ladder at the north bedroom window with a putty knife, cutting the…
…paint. it's taking years. I bring him things: a sandwich, a different knife, a lamp when it gets dark. Rolf is at the bottom holding the ladder and they're talking about boilers. when the window finally comes free, what's outside isn't the alley. it's the backyard on Sorrelwick, and the tree.
Jun 28
JAPAN, april 2027. Obaachan turns 88 on april 12 and is taking some of Jiichan'…
…s ashes to Yuasa.
who: Obaachan, mom, dad, Hana, me. Kenta (the cousin) is meeting us in Wakayama
dates (mom's draft): leave SFO sat 4/3, home wed 4/14. Osaka 2 nights, Yuasa 5, Kyoto 3
my costs:
- flight MSP -> SFO -> KIX: ~1,350 round trip if I book by november
- rail + food + my share of rooms: ~900
- mom + dad ar…
Jul 26
sunday call, 40 min
- the persimmon tree has "too many" this year. she counted 212 green ones from the kitchen window. she's doing his count on the calendar now
- she got the drawing of the red jacket (I sent her the 14-15 sketch). she put it next to his picture. she asked why the bird and the man are standing the same and I said "becaus…
Aug 18
Kofi + Linh, sat nov 7, 4pm, the botanical garden in Oakland. I'm a groomsman!!…
…and I'm doing the invitation as my gift
invitation: 5x7. the 51 bus where they met, w/ a just-married sign. ink + one colour, persimmon orange
due to the printer by 9/1. (sent 8/29)
travel: fly MSP -> SMF thurs 11/5, stay at mom + dad's, drive down w/ Hana fri. back to MSP tues 11/10, so I'm still in Sacramento for H…
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| First name | Douglas |
|---|---|
| Last name | Reed |
| Nickname | Dad |
| Comments | text, don't call. he will not hear it |
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Theo Nakagawa-ReedDad is parent of Theo Nakagawa-Reed
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Mom · 1 record Hana Nakagawa-Reed · 1 record Obaachan · 1 record Jiichan · 1 record Aunt Colleen · 1 record Miso · 1 record Dez · 1 record Priya · 1 record Jonah · 1 record Sam Haddad · 1 record Lu · 1 record Kofi · 1 recordQuestions
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q001 what's my SSN q013 what address is printed on my license q014 I'm filling out the rental application for the Finchley place. Pull together what they'll ask for: full legal name, date of birth, where I've lived the last five years with dates, my current landlord and her phone, what I pay in rent, employer and income, my car, references and an emergency contact.