Ring of Fire
I was born in South Korea in 1948, between the end of the WWII (1945) and Korean War (1950). During the summer school break in 1967, I went to Thailand to visit my mother and stepfather. At the end of the summer, I flew to Munich, Germany to continue school in different setting. I met Steve, an American Graduate student in the Netherlands in a German Language school. Steve and I got married in Vienna, Austria in 1970 and we flew to Hawaii.
In Hawaii we built a 48’ catamaran, Melekai (Song of Sea) and had two sons. We lived on Melekai 14 years homeschooling children while sailing the big waters of the globe.
Melekai in various ports.
Looking through a window
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Star Dust
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Dedicated to her son, Yenna Yi’s delicate book “Star Dust” is a poignant navigation of life after loss, and how loss echos even as we strive to find bits of joy. “Snow can’t stop the Spring from coming– / Joy can’t be separated from soul”
So many gentle lessons for all of us in this book of poems.
Love,
Frank
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Unvarnished Life
I call my early childhood unvarnished–roughhewn
between the aftermath of WWII, the Korean War, poverty,
family separation and loss.
However, I find beauty in unvarnished life–turning a
shed into a home, making dresses out of rag and drift
wood into art–thus savoring slivers of varnished life.
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