For Michael "Mike" Masato Takaezu · 5d ago
My mom texted me this obituary out of nowhere, just a short thing from The Garden Island about a man named Mike Takaezu. 91 years old, swam laps at Lydgate Beach Park every single day, kept a garden, played ukulele, had a weekly poker game with friends. I don't know why it got to me so much, I never knew him, but I read it twice at my desk in Denver. Ninety one years of just showing up for the small good things.