Today we get the pleasure to interview Amy Utsunomia Honjiyo. Before our conversations, we ask all of our guests to send us a biography or resume that we can use to write their introduction for the show. And upon request for Amy’s biography, she sent us her life resume that was so delightful that we are simply going to read it.
Amy Honjiyo, 71 years of living.
Before ‘Pencil-pushing’
Happy-go-lucky, roller skating hula-hooper who loved Girl Scouts and almost made it into Woodstock.
20 Years of ‘Pencil-pushing’ Highlights
- Student Clerk: LA Coroners’ Office, LA General Hospital Emergency Dept.
- Clerk: Charlie’s Taxi and Tours, Honolulu, HI, California State Univ. Testing Office.
- Big Clerk: Team Approach to Rehabilitation, Midwife Education Development including “Pregnant Patty”.
- Designer Clerk: Financial management systems, HMO + Insurance health plans, Kaiser.
20 years of Homeschooling Insights
- Learned that ‘teaching’ was taking the lead from the student.
- Every activity is an opportunity to explore and appreciate;
for example, counting Halloween candies, self-discovery on how to make bread, perfumes and origami, visiting your local trash haulers’ drop off station, why the coach yells when you don’t run fast enough.
- Traveling abroad made excellent ‘field trips’.
- Be an example of resourcefulness and accounting for oneself.
- Reminded every day that your child is not you.
And now ‘recycling’ for Sustainability
Cycle of Food Coordinator, Sustainable Little Tokyo
- Little Tokyo organic garbage collector.
- Conducts Bokashi*/Mottainai** Workshops.
- Supports Food Rescue efforts.
Practicing to be a Zen Buddhist.
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