Yesterday marked five years since my sister’s death in 2016. I need to post this then, but it just seemed to heavy a lift. So I waited. Today is easier.

After graduating from high school, Bonnie went off to the University of Colorado in Boulder, and stayed on the mainland after she graduated, returning to Hawaii only for short visits for the next 46 years. It was only after her husband’s death that she returned to Honolulu and moved in to provide home care for our parents in their final years. She had been back in Hawaii for about nine years when she died.

Bonnie was four years older than me. That means I’m now older than she was when she passed away. Not sure how I feel about that. Lucky, perhaps.

In any case, here’s a vintage photo of us taken in November 1948 in front of 974 Waiohinu Drive. In those days, we could just walk through the back hedge and proceed out along the neighbor’s driveway to Makaiwa Street, and then cross the street to Waiohinu, which is a short street which just loops around and rejoins Makaiwa.