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Q: Your family would like you to go back to Hawaii?

Takaezu: But I can't really move from here, because I have too many things. But I really like my own place. This garden-- when I had this in front of me, a lawn. I had strawberries. I didn't want to mow the lawn, so I had strawberries, but it got too much after a while. And I have almond trees. I thought I'll be self-sufficient, but of course I'm not. I put flowers in and from April to November I have flowers all the time. And I like the change of season. I really like the spring, but I like autumn also. There's something very beautiful about autumn. It's sad. I cover my plants every night and then take it off in the morning. It's really a chore, but it's kind of beautiful thing, because to me the garden is such a beautiful thing.

Q: And if the frost comes, everything dies? But if you can keep the frost off, everything lives for another day, is that right?

Takaezu: Um-hmm. Yes. That's what I tried to do. But beans, you just have to let it go. But I think there's a mystery in the garden to me, that-- you know, the potato, they know when it's time to grow. When you have a potato all winter, when it's springtime it starts to grow already.

To me it's so beautiful growing these vegetables. You put one seed and all these beautiful things happen. And so I have said this many times before, "I don't see any difference between