My hope for 2021 is for the world to become Real again. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily or have sharp edges or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has...
We’ve been abandoned and set adrift through the muck and mire in a rudderless ship. Aren’t we your tired, aren’t we your poor? Are your huddled masses so quick to ignore? While we still suffer, while we still cry. While our children go hungry, while our...
Christmas 2018 It was a packed audience. The twenty-eight-hundred seat Paramount Theater had standing room only for the city of Seattle’s premier Christmas Benefit Concert. Itsuki and Nancy peered through the curtains to the theater floor from back stage. Wow, it...
Christmas 2018 It was an exciting time. The Paramount Theater was sold out for the city of Seattle’s premier Christmas Benefit Concert. Mary, Andrew and their son Atticus were in attendance having flown up from LAX as well as Annie, Steve...
Christmas 2012 By the time Itsuki was twenty-one years old, he was making quite a name for himself. He studied and honed his skills under the tutelage of Yuga Wang, Dimitris Sgouros and Marc-André Hamelin, all world-renowned concert...
Christmas 2003 By the time Itsuki Gonzales was twelve years old he was receiving national recognition as a piano prodigy, but Seth kept him humble and grounded. He would take Itsuki with him as he volunteered at various area...
Christmas 1996 It was the last week before Christmas break and kids were dressed in their winter coats and scarves, some proudly holding their Holiday projects they made in class as they waited to board the school buses or to be picked up by parents. Some of the...
Christmas 1995 “Please call me Seth.” “Alright… Seth, after numerous attempts to contact you have failed it was our decision to meet with you and conduct business in person. Do you know a Mrs. Atsuko Tanaka?” as she took some papers out of her briefcase and spread...
Christmas 1986 They were married for eleven years glorious years but sadly, after a brief illness, Gracie lost her battle with cancer during Christmas. Seth was lost without her and did his best to be both mother and father to 6-year-old Mary and 3-year-old Annie...
Christmas 1995 Seth Gonzales sat at his artist easel on the back-deck solarium of their wooded cottage in the suburbs of Seattle along with the trusted family beagle, Buddie, the dog formally known as Prince. After a circuitous path he was right where he felt his...
