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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I walked into a coffee shop yesterday in Berkeley. And there was a guy sitting in the coffee shop. He probably was, I’d say, 60 or 70.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I just said, “Excuse me, sir, what is that you’re reading?” And he tells me it’s about the history of ideas and history of religion. But then, he doesn’t want me to go. And basically what he said is that he’s lonely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Loneliness]creates fragileness. It creates the opposite of resilience. Bridging is the willingness to actually see ourselves and see the other person. And the deeper we bridge, the more resilient we are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It doesn’t mean we won’t have challenges, but we know we’re not in it alone. So bridging invites that human care, human interest and human curiosity.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On whether bridging is always possible:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Each person has to derive the answer to that question themselves. They have to sit with that question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think initially, because we’re feeling a lot of fear, and that fear is sometimes well-founded, so there are certain conditions.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>We actually help bring people together sometimes, and when we do, we frequently don’t start with the most difficult issue. We start with human issues. And sometimes what comes out is loneliness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is that a liberal issue, a conservative issue? It’s a human issue. So, what we say is that if you can’t bridge, and there may be certain conditions you can’t, try not to break. And breaking is where it’s not simply where you don’t interact with someone; it’s where you denigrate them, where you assume that they are a threat, where you call them evil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, if you’re not gonna bridge, if you’re not gonna reach across and be present with the person, could you at least not denigrate them? Could you at least not dehumanize them? Could you at least still just say, “I’m not comfortable, I’m too raw, I’m traumatized, I don’t feel safe, but I’m not assuming that you’re all things evil.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On how to begin to bridge with someone you don’t agree with:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Start with something that’s immediate. Start with something this doable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you can’t bridge with someone who’s on the opposite side of the political spectrum you are, bridge with your cousin. Bridge with someone who you share the same language, the same food, the same religion — maybe the same parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it doesn’t mean it will be easy. Sometimes the people who are close to us know how to really hurt us. But as we get better at bridging, we’re not only gaining resilience, but the muscle gets better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if it gets to be too much, stop. It doesn’t mean you have to win it or you have to get it all done in the first sitting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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No one in the neighborhood died, but eight people were taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation and injuries that were not life-threatening, including a person who was hurt climbing out a window, police officer Anthony Carrasco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave Shapiro, co-founder of Sound Talent Group, and two employees were among those killed, the music agency said in a statement. Sound Talent Group has represented artists including American pop band Hanson, American singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton and the Canadian rock group Sum 41. “We are devastated by the loss of our co-founder, colleagues and friends. Our hearts go out to their families and to everyone impacted by today’s tragedy,” the agency said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six people were on board the plane, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Authorities were still combing the scene and recovering the bodies before releasing an official number and identifying the dead, though there were not believed to be any survivors aboard the flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The airport weather instrumentation that pilots rely on to safely land planes has not functioned properly at Montgomery Field Airport, which is where the jet was flying to, since Tuesday, the National Weather Service (NWS) \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/public-safety/2025/05/22/montgomery-field-airport-weather-instruments-not-functioning-properly-at-time-of-plane-crash\">confirmed with KPBS.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"routes-Site-routes-Post-Title-__Title__title\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1996968/senate-votes-block-californias-electric-vehicle-mandate\">\u003cstrong>California Sues Feds After Senate Blocks Its Clean Vehicle Rules\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of The California Report Magazine’s series about \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-composers\">\u003cem>California composers\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. You can hear Esmail’s compositions and learn more about her work by listening to the audio story above, or by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\">\u003cem>subscribing\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reena Esmail’s childhood in Los Angeles had two soundtracks: the Western classical music her parents loved, and the old, scratchy Bollywood tapes her paternal grandparents would play over and over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Western classical music was Esmail’s first love, inherited from her mom’s side. That branch of the family — Catholics from Goa, a part of India once colonized by Portugal — eventually relocated to Kenya.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be some really hot night in Mombasa. And my grandfather would turn off all the lights and put on a record of a Beethoven symphony,” Esmail recalled. “He would just sit in the dark and listen as if it was a religious experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, her dad’s parents, who lived with her in L.A., loved Bollywood soundtracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those multicultural influences shaped what would become the driving question of her work: how do you invite people from different cultures onto the same stage to build a relationship and create music together?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039910\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1772px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250513-REENA-ESMAIL-3-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039910\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250513-REENA-ESMAIL-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1772\" height=\"1182\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250513-REENA-ESMAIL-3-KQED.jpg 1772w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250513-REENA-ESMAIL-3-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250513-REENA-ESMAIL-3-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250513-REENA-ESMAIL-3-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250513-REENA-ESMAIL-3-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1772px) 100vw, 1772px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photograph taken in 1997, after Esmail’s first time playing a piano concerto with an orchestra at age 14, with her grandparents, Zaitoon Esmail and Esmail Abdul Kader. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Reena Esmail/Ozair Esmail)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It starts the dialogue because you’ve both already created beauty together,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an elementary school student, Esmail would beg her parents to tag along to classical music concerts. It was too heavy, they told her. She wouldn’t appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esmail’s response? “I will appreciate it. I will figure out how to appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember thinking, ‘I need to figure out how this music works,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esmail’s talent soon became clear. She began playing piano at age 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a practice curfew. My dad would kick me off the piano at 11:00 p.m. every night, [saying] ‘You have to be done. We need to go to sleep.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039918\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1331px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250513-REENA-ESMAIL-5-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039918\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250513-REENA-ESMAIL-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1331\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250513-REENA-ESMAIL-5-KQED.jpg 1331w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250513-REENA-ESMAIL-5-KQED-800x1202.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250513-REENA-ESMAIL-5-KQED-1020x1533.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250513-REENA-ESMAIL-5-KQED-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250513-REENA-ESMAIL-5-KQED-1022x1536.jpg 1022w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1331px) 100vw, 1331px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reena Esmail studied Western classical music at Juilliard and Yale, and spent time as a Fulbright scholar studying Hindustani music in India. She’s drawn on both of those influences in her work over the past two decades. \u003ccite>(Hannah Arista)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But performing on stage was a different story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My arms would shake. My legs would be shaking. Sometimes when you panic, your fingers get sweaty and then your hands are sliding off the keys,” Esmail recalled. “Just an avalanche of disaster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are terrified every time you have to play in front of people,” she recalls her parents telling her. “Are you sure you want to do this for the rest of your life?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her teachers at the L.A. County High School for the Arts encouraged her to consider a different way of making music without having to perform on stage: composing. Her early compositions got her into Juilliard, earned her a Fulbright in India and launched a career that’s earned her countless accolades, including her current stint as \u003ca href=\"https://lamasterchorale.org/artist-details/117/reena-esmail\">artist-in-residence with the L.A. Master Chorale.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Composing is how Esmail has made her mark — by putting Western classical musicians in conversation with Indian artists, building bridges between violinists and sitar players, tabla drummers and Western singers. Her music has been performed by major orchestras and choirs all over the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just feel like I’m living my dream because as a young child, there were so many times where I couldn’t rectify the cultures that I was living in,” Esmail said. Now, her music is helping others bridge those worlds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Indian American] teenagers… now actually say to me, ‘We had that same feeling. We felt like we couldn’t rectify these cultures. And then we heard your music and it was everything that we are in one piece.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041201\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1296px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Tarekita.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041201\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Tarekita.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1296\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Tarekita.jpg 1296w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Tarekita-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Tarekita-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Tarekita-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reena Esmail performs “Tarekita” with the Urban Voices Project in 2016. They are a choir of people who are currently or have recently experienced homelessness on Skid Row in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Reena Esmail)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of her most-performed compositions is a piece called \u003ca href=\"https://www.reenaesmail.com/catalog-item/tarekita/\">Ta Re Ki Ta\u003c/a>, originally created with singers from the \u003ca href=\"https://urbanvoicesproject.org/\">Urban Voices Project\u003c/a> who have currently or recently experienced being unhoused on L.A.’s Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How [do] these people who have so many major life concerns find the time to sing?” Esmail remembers wondering. “Then when you meet them,” Esmail said, “you realize this is how they’re getting through all those things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esmail taught the singers onomatopoeic sounds that imitate the sound of a tabla, kind of like scatting in jazz. Today, choirs around the world can follow Esmail’s instructions to pronounce the syllables using different parts of the mouth and tongue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKK1YKfcGAw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Esmail’s most ambitious works for the L.A. Master Chorale, called \u003ca href=\"https://www.reenaesmail.com/catalog-item/malhaar-requiem-for-water/\">Malhaar,\u003c/a> focuses on drought and water in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project is inspired by music Esmail heard while attending Catholic church, listening to requiems, or songs of mourning.[aside postID=news_12000787 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240611-DestinyMuhammad-10-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg'] To capture the sense of loss she felt when thinking about drought and climate change, she chose lyrics by \u003ca href=\"https://williamodaly.com/bio/\">William O’Daly\u003c/a> — a poet and translator — who also worked for the state’s Department of Water Resources as lead author of the recent California Water Plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The piece brings together choral singers with a tabla player and a Hindustani singer performing ragas, a traditional melodic framework for improvisation in Indian music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Malhaar is a family of ragas that are supposed to beckon rain,” Esmail said. “The lore goes that if it is the driest desert and someone sings the most perfect Malhaar, suddenly water droplets are going to form in the air.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, on the day of Malhaar’s premiere at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2023, L.A. was drenched in a record rainstorm, as the choir sang: \u003cem>“Without you, how will we weep when we need to? How will the earth smell after the last drops of rain?”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNYsF550DUM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s this slow march towards grief that will just flatten you and change you,” Esmail said. “Without water, how can we actually cry tears?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esmail lives in\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038756/an-historic-altadena-church-lost-to-the-eaton-fire-begins-the-long-journey-to-resurrection\"> Altadena, a community full of grief\u003c/a> right now. Luckily, the house she shares with her husband, violinist Vijay Gupta, is still standing after the Eaton Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esmail kept returning to that line: how will the earth smell after the last drops of rain? Now, she said, she knows. It’s the smell of ash in the air after a fire has torn through a drought-stricken landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, Esmail is working on a harp concerto about wildfire. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, her dad’s parents, who lived with her in L.A., loved Bollywood soundtracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those multicultural influences shaped what would become the driving question of her work: how do you invite people from different cultures onto the same stage to build a relationship and create music together?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039910\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1772px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250513-REENA-ESMAIL-3-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039910\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250513-REENA-ESMAIL-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1772\" height=\"1182\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250513-REENA-ESMAIL-3-KQED.jpg 1772w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250513-REENA-ESMAIL-3-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250513-REENA-ESMAIL-3-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250513-REENA-ESMAIL-3-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250513-REENA-ESMAIL-3-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1772px) 100vw, 1772px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photograph taken in 1997, after Esmail’s first time playing a piano concerto with an orchestra at age 14, with her grandparents, Zaitoon Esmail and Esmail Abdul Kader. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Reena Esmail/Ozair Esmail)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It starts the dialogue because you’ve both already created beauty together,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an elementary school student, Esmail would beg her parents to tag along to classical music concerts. It was too heavy, they told her. She wouldn’t appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esmail’s response? “I will appreciate it. I will figure out how to appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember thinking, ‘I need to figure out how this music works,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esmail’s talent soon became clear. She began playing piano at age 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a practice curfew. My dad would kick me off the piano at 11:00 p.m. every night, [saying] ‘You have to be done. We need to go to sleep.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039918\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1331px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250513-REENA-ESMAIL-5-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039918\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250513-REENA-ESMAIL-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1331\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250513-REENA-ESMAIL-5-KQED.jpg 1331w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250513-REENA-ESMAIL-5-KQED-800x1202.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250513-REENA-ESMAIL-5-KQED-1020x1533.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250513-REENA-ESMAIL-5-KQED-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250513-REENA-ESMAIL-5-KQED-1022x1536.jpg 1022w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1331px) 100vw, 1331px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reena Esmail studied Western classical music at Juilliard and Yale, and spent time as a Fulbright scholar studying Hindustani music in India. She’s drawn on both of those influences in her work over the past two decades. \u003ccite>(Hannah Arista)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But performing on stage was a different story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My arms would shake. My legs would be shaking. Sometimes when you panic, your fingers get sweaty and then your hands are sliding off the keys,” Esmail recalled. “Just an avalanche of disaster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are terrified every time you have to play in front of people,” she recalls her parents telling her. “Are you sure you want to do this for the rest of your life?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her teachers at the L.A. County High School for the Arts encouraged her to consider a different way of making music without having to perform on stage: composing. Her early compositions got her into Juilliard, earned her a Fulbright in India and launched a career that’s earned her countless accolades, including her current stint as \u003ca href=\"https://lamasterchorale.org/artist-details/117/reena-esmail\">artist-in-residence with the L.A. Master Chorale.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Composing is how Esmail has made her mark — by putting Western classical musicians in conversation with Indian artists, building bridges between violinists and sitar players, tabla drummers and Western singers. Her music has been performed by major orchestras and choirs all over the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just feel like I’m living my dream because as a young child, there were so many times where I couldn’t rectify the cultures that I was living in,” Esmail said. Now, her music is helping others bridge those worlds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Indian American] teenagers… now actually say to me, ‘We had that same feeling. We felt like we couldn’t rectify these cultures. And then we heard your music and it was everything that we are in one piece.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041201\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1296px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Tarekita.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041201\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Tarekita.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1296\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Tarekita.jpg 1296w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Tarekita-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Tarekita-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Tarekita-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reena Esmail performs “Tarekita” with the Urban Voices Project in 2016. They are a choir of people who are currently or have recently experienced homelessness on Skid Row in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Reena Esmail)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of her most-performed compositions is a piece called \u003ca href=\"https://www.reenaesmail.com/catalog-item/tarekita/\">Ta Re Ki Ta\u003c/a>, originally created with singers from the \u003ca href=\"https://urbanvoicesproject.org/\">Urban Voices Project\u003c/a> who have currently or recently experienced being unhoused on L.A.’s Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How [do] these people who have so many major life concerns find the time to sing?” Esmail remembers wondering. “Then when you meet them,” Esmail said, “you realize this is how they’re getting through all those things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esmail taught the singers onomatopoeic sounds that imitate the sound of a tabla, kind of like scatting in jazz. 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Master Chorale, called \u003ca href=\"https://www.reenaesmail.com/catalog-item/malhaar-requiem-for-water/\">Malhaar,\u003c/a> focuses on drought and water in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project is inspired by music Esmail heard while attending Catholic church, listening to requiems, or songs of mourning.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> To capture the sense of loss she felt when thinking about drought and climate change, she chose lyrics by \u003ca href=\"https://williamodaly.com/bio/\">William O’Daly\u003c/a> — a poet and translator — who also worked for the state’s Department of Water Resources as lead author of the recent California Water Plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The piece brings together choral singers with a tabla player and a Hindustani singer performing ragas, a traditional melodic framework for improvisation in Indian music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Malhaar is a family of ragas that are supposed to beckon rain,” Esmail said. “The lore goes that if it is the driest desert and someone sings the most perfect Malhaar, suddenly water droplets are going to form in the air.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, on the day of Malhaar’s premiere at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2023, L.A. was drenched in a record rainstorm, as the choir sang: \u003cem>“Without you, how will we weep when we need to? How will the earth smell after the last drops of rain?”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/zNYsF550DUM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/zNYsF550DUM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“It’s this slow march towards grief that will just flatten you and change you,” Esmail said. “Without water, how can we actually cry tears?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esmail lives in\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038756/an-historic-altadena-church-lost-to-the-eaton-fire-begins-the-long-journey-to-resurrection\"> Altadena, a community full of grief\u003c/a> right now. Luckily, the house she shares with her husband, violinist Vijay Gupta, is still standing after the Eaton Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esmail kept returning to that line: how will the earth smell after the last drops of rain? Now, she said, she knows. It’s the smell of ash in the air after a fire has torn through a drought-stricken landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, Esmail is working on a harp concerto about wildfire. The piece ends with the harpist holding a light in her hand. While fire can easily destroy everything in its path, Esmail said, it can also help find a way forward as it lights the path to whatever comes next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Late Wednesday night, Republicans sidestepped the filibuster and voted using a simple majority to clear a path to revoke California’s unique clean air rules.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 class=\"routes-Site-routes-Post-Title-__Title__title\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040286/how-california-cap-and-trade-works-and-how-newsom-wants-to-change-it\">\u003cstrong>How California Cap-And-Trade Works — And How Newsom Wants To Change It\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gov. 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But the system has come under fire, from both President Donald Trump — who targeted the program in \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/protecting-american-energy-from-state-overreach/\">an executive order\u003c/a> last month — as well as progressives who argue it hasn’t been strict enough on oil and gas companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Extending cap-and-trade, which sunsets in 2030, raises key questions for state leaders: Should money raised from the program pay for environmentally-friendly projects or help Californians manage the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023129/how-climate-change-complicating-california-democrats-affordability-agenda\">mounting costs\u003c/a> of climate change? Will key decisions about the emissions cap be made by state lawmakers, many of whom are just learning the intricacies of the program, or by unelected state regulators with deeper expertise?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom is not advocating for any major alterations to the design of the program as he seeks to extend cap-and-trade to 2045. A Newsom spokesperson said he “is focused on the program’s stability in an increasingly uncertain world.” Newsom is seeking to change where cap-and-trade revenues are spent. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cb>Here are the morning’s top stories on Monday, May 19, 2025…\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan data-slate-fragment=\"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\">Federal authorities are seeking help to piece together the timeline of their primary suspect in the explosion at a Palm Springs fertility clinic over the weekend. They identified 25-year-old Twentynine Palms Guy Edward Bartkus in connection with the bombing and said he was likely killed in the blast.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan data-slate-fragment=\"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\">President Donald Trump said he will announce tariffs on imported pharmaceuticals in the next few weeks. While big drug companies seem to have plans to weather the storm, independent pharmacists in California are trying their best to prepare with limited information.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-05-19/what-we-know-about-guy-edward-bartkus\">Authorities Look For Answers In Twentynine Palms Fertility Clinic Bombing \u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After the bombing of a fertility clinic in Twentynine Palms on Saturday, law enforcement is seeking the public’s help in order to piece together what transpired before the destruction. Authorities have identified 25-year-old Guy Edward Bartkus as their person of interest. They have determined that Bartkus was likely killed in the blast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Akil Davis, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said the suspect had nihilistic ideations and targeted the American Reproductive Center’s IVF facility. The blast blew off part of the front of the building and started a fire but Davis said the damage was not as bad as it could have been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Due to the speed and professionalism of the Palm Springs Fire Department, station one the Palm Springs police department as well as the FBI bomb technicians, we are able to save all of the embryos at this facility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/donald-trump-tariffs-prescription-drugs-generics-supply-chain-biosimilars-biologics/view/republish/\">Small Business Pharmacies Brace For Tariffs On Imported Pharmaceuticals\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Independent pharmacists in California are doing their best to prepare for an increase in prices after President Donald Trump said he will announce tariffs on imported medication in the next few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Standing over a gas burner in his outdoor kitchen in South Pasadena, Hong Pham toasted an onion and a whole ginger root until they were smoky and black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every Vietnamese household needs a kitchen in their backyard or garage to do the “smelly cooking,” he joked, emphasizing that charring the aromatics is key to enhancing the flavor of \u003cem>miến gà\u003c/em>, a Vietnamese chicken and glass noodle soup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dish is comfort in a bowl — and special to Hong and his family, who are among the diaspora of people who fled Vietnam after the war ended a half century ago and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037680/san-jose-became-home-betty-duong-vietnamese-americans\">settled in places like California\u003c/a>. \u003cem>Miến gà \u003c/em>was one of the first homemade meals his family had together after reuniting at a refugee camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had a miserable cold this winter and was searching for a recipe for \u003cem>miến gà\u003c/em> when I found one posted by Hong and his wife, Kim Dao, on \u003ca href=\"https://theravenouscouple.com/2013/04/mien-ga-vietnamese-chicken-glass-noodle-soup.html\">The Ravenous Couple\u003c/a>, their popular food blog, YouTube videos and Instagram account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alongside the recipe, Hong shares a story his father, Tung, told him about the soup’s connection to April 30, the day Saigon fell to communist forces, and his life began to unravel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because he had served in the South Vietnamese Army, Tung was sent to a Viet Cong re-education camp as punishment for supporting the Americans’ war effort. He endured three years of starvation and hard labor, separated from his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036298\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_19-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_19-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_19-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_19-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_19-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_19-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_19-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hong Pham serves miến gà at his home in South Pasadena on Saturday, April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Alisha Jucevic for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When he got out, Tung tried to make a living as a teacher, but he barely scraped by. In March 1980, he decided to escape, joining the exodus of \u003ca href=\"https://refugees.org/50-years-after-the-fall-of-saigon-refugee-stories-from-vietnam/\">Vietnamese refugees who fled their homeland\u003c/a> by boat. Because he could only afford three spots on an overcrowded fishing boat, Tung took his two eldest kids — Hong, who was almost 6 at the time, and his 9-year-old sister, Tam — and left behind his pregnant wife, Ly, and another daughter, Hong Ngoc, who was barely 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom and dad were OK with splitting up the family, even though they had no idea when — how — at what point in the future, if ever, they would see each other again,” Hong said. “For them to make that decision [when they were] in their 30s was unimaginable to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hong and Kim started their blog 16 years ago when they were still dating. They were craving Vietnamese food and wanted to learn how to recreate the dishes their moms cooked for them. Hong’s mom cooked intuitively, using everyday kitchen tools like rice bowls to measure her ingredients, so he decided to write down her methods so he could follow her recipes precisely. Kim helped convert the amounts into the American system of cooking measurements.[aside postID=news_12037680 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240403_BETTYDUONG_GC-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg']This drew Hong closer to his mom, especially after he moved away from home in Michigan, where the family resettled after coming to America. He often calls her when he’s cooking to get her advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he went to college and came home to visit during breaks, his mom often greeted him by asking, “Have you eaten?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would just answer her yes or no, and didn’t think much about it. But now, as a parent, I know what she really meant. It was her way of nourishing us and showing her love and affection,” he said. “And so now that we both cook, we’re so much tighter because of our cooking.”\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, I can relate. My parents, brother and I traveled by plane to the United States in 1984 as part of a later wave of refugees who were admitted to the country under the Orderly Departure Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whenever we call each other, my parents always first ask, “Have you eaten?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had been a longtime admirer of The Ravenous Couple and their culinary adventures. After finding the recipe for \u003cem>miến gà\u003c/em> and reading his dad’s story, I reached out to Hong. He was as open and friendly as he seemed online, and he invited me to come cook with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036304\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12036304 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_DIPTYCH-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_DIPTYCH-01.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_DIPTYCH-01-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_DIPTYCH-01-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_DIPTYCH-01-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_DIPTYCH-01-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_DIPTYCH-01-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hong Pham picks fresh Chinese chives from his backyard herb garden as he prepares miến gà at his home in South Pasadena on Saturday, April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Alisha Jucevic for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We moved from his backyard kitchen to his brightly lit indoor kitchen to continue making the soup. Hong called his mom on FaceTime at her home in suburban Detroit to ask how much dry bean thread noodles to use in the dish, because they quickly expand in water. I asked her to share her memories of her family’s flight from Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ly said in Vietnamese that after Tung left, she waited anxiously for news. Tung and the children went on a boat led by the same smuggling organization her other family members hired to get to a safer shore. The group was reputable, but there were reasons to worry: The journey was dangerous and an untold number of refugees lost their lives to dehydration, starvation, pirate attacks or rough seas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 10 days later, a man working for the leader of the smuggling operation came to her door. He said that during the journey to Thailand, Tung begged the leader to bring his wife and toddler on the next trip out of Vietnam, and he agreed.[aside postID=news_12037891 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Paris-By-Night-Ilo_3-1020x659.jpg']Ly said she couldn’t afford to go, but the man urged her to quickly come up with a payment and leave while she was still five months pregnant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He told me if I refused to go, it was my fault because [the ringleader] was trying to keep his promise to my husband,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With her mom’s help, Ly borrowed enough gold — the most desirable currency in post-war Vietnam — from neighbors and friends to board a boat with about 90 other refugees, with Hong Ngoc on her lap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ly said the sea was calm and the boat was so overloaded that she could stretch her arm and touch the water. They quickly ran out of food and water, so she fed her daughter a citrus syrup she had made for the trip, so she wouldn’t cry from thirst and hunger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They traveled for three days and two nights before landing on an island near the Thai-Cambodian border. Ly said authorities eventually transported her group to a refugee camp in Laem Sing, a district in eastern Thailand. She and Hong Ngoc arrived on April 30, 1980, five years after the Fall of Saigon. She recalled seeing Tung, Hong and Tam in the crowd of people rushing to welcome the latest load of survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036305\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12036305 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_DIPTYCH-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_DIPTYCH-02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_DIPTYCH-02-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_DIPTYCH-02-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_DIPTYCH-02-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_DIPTYCH-02-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_DIPTYCH-02-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hong Pham chars ginger and onion over his outdoor stove to flavor the broth for miến gà, a Vietnamese chicken and glass noodle soup, at his home in South Pasadena on Saturday, April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Alisha Jucevic for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were so overcome with emotions, we just hugged each other and cried,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vietnamese refugees consider April 30 a day of mourning. They call it “Black April” because it was the day they lost their country. But for the Phams, it was also a day of rebirth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many people were lost at sea … so for our family to be able to reunite like that was really a miracle,” Hong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the secrecy surrounding the escape, they never learned the name of the smuggling operation’s leader. He was only known as “Anh Bo.” Hong and his sister, Tam, said they wish they could thank him for bringing their family together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He could have taken anybody, but he kept his word. Even to this day, that means a lot,” Tam said by phone from her home outside Detroit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once reunited, the family stayed in Thailand for several more months so Ly could give birth. Tung named their new baby girl Tudo, or \u003cem>tự do,\u003c/em> which means freedom in Vietnamese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038139\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250429-Mien-Ga-Memories-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1962\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250429-Mien-Ga-Memories-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250429-Mien-Ga-Memories-02-KQED-800x785.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250429-Mien-Ga-Memories-02-KQED-1020x1001.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250429-Mien-Ga-Memories-02-KQED-160x157.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250429-Mien-Ga-Memories-02-KQED-1536x1507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250429-Mien-Ga-Memories-02-KQED-1920x1884.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of the Pham family in the early 1980s after they were resettled in Michigan. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hong Pham)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the refugee camp, the family received daily rations of food. Ly said one day, each person received a piece of chicken, so she put everyone’s portion together to make \u003cem>miến gà\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the blog, Tung described feeling grateful to eat \u003cem>miến gà\u003c/em> with his family, reunited and free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thinking what could have been and the remote odds of seeing my family together so soon, I ate this simple dish with such happiness,” he said. “It was the most satisfying and unforgettable meal I’ve ever experienced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ly said she was thankful to her brother, who was the first in her family to arrive in the United States, for sending the money to the refugee camp so she could buy the noodles and other ingredients for the soup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At home in South Pasadena, Hong used a whole chicken — head and feet intact — he bought from a fresh poultry store to make his version of \u003cem>miến gà\u003c/em>. He placed the chicken in a boiling pot of broth, threw in the charred onion and ginger and reduced the stock to a simmer. Once the chicken was cooked, about 30 minutes later, he lifted it out of the pot and submerged it in a bowl of ice water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038059\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12038059 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_12_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_12_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_12_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_12_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_12_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_12_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_12_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hong Pham cuts Chinese chives as he prepares miến gà at his home in South Pasadena on Saturday, April 12, 2025. A photo on the fridge shows Pham and his family at a refugee camp in Thailand in 1980 after they escaped Vietnam and before they resettled in the United States. \u003ccite>(Alisha Jucevic for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Next, he placed the translucent noodles into a handmade ceramic bowl, ladled in the broth and seasoned it with pungent fish sauce. He garnished the soup with chicken, shiitake mushrooms, fried shallots, scallions and fresh chives picked from his herb garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said his mom used to scoff at his precise plating technique and his insistence on pairing certain dishes with ceramic pieces that he made — a hobby he picked up during the pandemic — to make sure they “look pretty for the ‘Gram.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a generational difference, Hong said, because his mom had to cook for survival, whereas he has the luxury of consuming food “with more intention.” We gathered around his dining table and slurped \u003cem>miến gà \u003c/em>with Hong’s daughters, Mira and Emi. The noodles were slippery and the soup had an intense chicken flavor combined with the umami of shiitake mushrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Tudo was born, the Phams were admitted to the United States as refugees and resettled in Michigan with the support of a Catholic charity. They rented a house in suburban Detroit. Tung worked as a janitor and assembled machinery parts at a factory, while Ly stayed home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I came here, I didn’t know one word of English, and I didn’t know how to drive. I didn’t know anything,” she said. “But I tried to raise my kids and teach them Vietnamese so they wouldn’t lose their cultural heritage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036300\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12036300 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_22-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_22-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_22-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_22-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_22-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_22-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_22-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mira Pham, 7, helps her dad, Hong Pham, set the table to eat miến gà at their home in South Pasadena on Saturday, April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Alisha Jucevic for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the children went to school full-time, she went back to work as a butcher, a trade she did in the wet markets of Vietnam, this time at a Jewish deli. She also volunteered at her Catholic church, often by making and selling Vietnamese food to raise money for various causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My children didn’t understand why I spent so much time in church,” she said. “I explained that before we left, I prayed to God that if He delivers our family to safety, I would do everything I could to serve my faith.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family started over with almost nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hong remembers wearing secondhand clothes for years because his parents were saving money to pay back their debt. For their first Christmas, his parents wrapped empty boxes and put them under a donated tree because they couldn’t afford to buy gifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom mentioned that when we first arrived, the [sponsor] families didn’t know what we liked to eat and so they would give us canned peas, canned corn and things like that — and a lot of mashed potato flakes and macaroni and cheese,” Hong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036299\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12036299 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_21-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_21-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_21-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_21-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_21-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_21-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_21-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hong Pham dishes out miến gà at his home in South Pasadena on Saturday, April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Alisha Jucevic for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She didn’t know how to cook any of it, and instead used whatever she could find at American supermarkets to recreate Vietnamese food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that was the ingenuity of that generation. She used all these American ingredients, but it was all made in a Vietnamese way,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the way, small acts of kindness helped the family survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When someone noticed that Tung was taking the bus to get from one job to another, they offered him rides. Later, a sponsor gave him a used car and taught him to drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a collective effort, a lot of generous people in the community helped us get through a tough time,” Hong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hong said his parents constantly reminded him and his siblings how lucky they were to be in the land of opportunity and achieve their dreams. The four kids graduated from the University of Michigan and went on to earn graduate degrees. Hong became a doctor, Tam an engineer, Ngoc a public health expert, and Tudo an attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he lives far away from his parents, Hong and his wife stay connected to their heritage by speaking Vietnamese to their daughters and by sharing food with their community. They host cooking parties in their backyard to help raise funds for charities. More recently, they made an inventive version of \u003cem>banh mi\u003c/em> with brisket and homemade pickles to support victims of the Eaton wildfire in nearby Altadena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12036302 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_28-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_28-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_28-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_28-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_28-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_28-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_28-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emi Pham, 10, her sister Mira, 7, and their dad, Hong Pham, eat miến gà at their home in South Pasadena on Saturday, April 12, 2025. Miến gà is a Vietnamese chicken and glass noodle soup garnished with shiitake mushrooms, scallions, fresh chives and crispy fried shallots. \u003ccite>(Alisha Jucevic for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hong said Tung is 85 and no longer able to speak coherently due to a stroke. Ly takes care of him. Hong said he’s glad he recorded Tung’s memories of \u003cem>miến gà\u003c/em> years ago and regrets not doing more recordings while his dad was still able to speak. He said his dad was a great storyteller and had a knack for spotting Vietnam veterans wherever they went.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’d approach them really casually and thank them for their service, and next thing you know, they’ll have a long conversation,” Hong said. “He loved to share his stories and listen to other people’s stories as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If his dad could speak, Hong said he would probably say that he’s “forever grateful to America for welcoming us as a family and as a whole community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he also thinks Tung would be sad about the country’s tough immigration policies under President Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of me also would like to think he would be abhorrent about the current state of America, the freedoms that he escaped and risked his life and lives of his children for, slowly eroding away,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>This drew Hong closer to his mom, especially after he moved away from home in Michigan, where the family resettled after coming to America. He often calls her when he’s cooking to get her advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he went to college and came home to visit during breaks, his mom often greeted him by asking, “Have you eaten?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would just answer her yes or no, and didn’t think much about it. But now, as a parent, I know what she really meant. It was her way of nourishing us and showing her love and affection,” he said. “And so now that we both cook, we’re so much tighter because of our cooking.”\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, I can relate. My parents, brother and I traveled by plane to the United States in 1984 as part of a later wave of refugees who were admitted to the country under the Orderly Departure Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whenever we call each other, my parents always first ask, “Have you eaten?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had been a longtime admirer of The Ravenous Couple and their culinary adventures. After finding the recipe for \u003cem>miến gà\u003c/em> and reading his dad’s story, I reached out to Hong. He was as open and friendly as he seemed online, and he invited me to come cook with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036304\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12036304 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_DIPTYCH-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_DIPTYCH-01.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_DIPTYCH-01-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_DIPTYCH-01-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_DIPTYCH-01-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_DIPTYCH-01-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_DIPTYCH-01-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hong Pham picks fresh Chinese chives from his backyard herb garden as he prepares miến gà at his home in South Pasadena on Saturday, April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Alisha Jucevic for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We moved from his backyard kitchen to his brightly lit indoor kitchen to continue making the soup. Hong called his mom on FaceTime at her home in suburban Detroit to ask how much dry bean thread noodles to use in the dish, because they quickly expand in water. I asked her to share her memories of her family’s flight from Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ly said in Vietnamese that after Tung left, she waited anxiously for news. Tung and the children went on a boat led by the same smuggling organization her other family members hired to get to a safer shore. The group was reputable, but there were reasons to worry: The journey was dangerous and an untold number of refugees lost their lives to dehydration, starvation, pirate attacks or rough seas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 10 days later, a man working for the leader of the smuggling operation came to her door. He said that during the journey to Thailand, Tung begged the leader to bring his wife and toddler on the next trip out of Vietnam, and he agreed.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Ly said she couldn’t afford to go, but the man urged her to quickly come up with a payment and leave while she was still five months pregnant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He told me if I refused to go, it was my fault because [the ringleader] was trying to keep his promise to my husband,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With her mom’s help, Ly borrowed enough gold — the most desirable currency in post-war Vietnam — from neighbors and friends to board a boat with about 90 other refugees, with Hong Ngoc on her lap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ly said the sea was calm and the boat was so overloaded that she could stretch her arm and touch the water. They quickly ran out of food and water, so she fed her daughter a citrus syrup she had made for the trip, so she wouldn’t cry from thirst and hunger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They traveled for three days and two nights before landing on an island near the Thai-Cambodian border. Ly said authorities eventually transported her group to a refugee camp in Laem Sing, a district in eastern Thailand. She and Hong Ngoc arrived on April 30, 1980, five years after the Fall of Saigon. She recalled seeing Tung, Hong and Tam in the crowd of people rushing to welcome the latest load of survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036305\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12036305 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_DIPTYCH-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_DIPTYCH-02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_DIPTYCH-02-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_DIPTYCH-02-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_DIPTYCH-02-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_DIPTYCH-02-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_DIPTYCH-02-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hong Pham chars ginger and onion over his outdoor stove to flavor the broth for miến gà, a Vietnamese chicken and glass noodle soup, at his home in South Pasadena on Saturday, April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Alisha Jucevic for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were so overcome with emotions, we just hugged each other and cried,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vietnamese refugees consider April 30 a day of mourning. They call it “Black April” because it was the day they lost their country. But for the Phams, it was also a day of rebirth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many people were lost at sea … so for our family to be able to reunite like that was really a miracle,” Hong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the secrecy surrounding the escape, they never learned the name of the smuggling operation’s leader. He was only known as “Anh Bo.” Hong and his sister, Tam, said they wish they could thank him for bringing their family together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He could have taken anybody, but he kept his word. Even to this day, that means a lot,” Tam said by phone from her home outside Detroit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once reunited, the family stayed in Thailand for several more months so Ly could give birth. Tung named their new baby girl Tudo, or \u003cem>tự do,\u003c/em> which means freedom in Vietnamese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038139\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250429-Mien-Ga-Memories-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1962\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250429-Mien-Ga-Memories-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250429-Mien-Ga-Memories-02-KQED-800x785.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250429-Mien-Ga-Memories-02-KQED-1020x1001.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250429-Mien-Ga-Memories-02-KQED-160x157.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250429-Mien-Ga-Memories-02-KQED-1536x1507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250429-Mien-Ga-Memories-02-KQED-1920x1884.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of the Pham family in the early 1980s after they were resettled in Michigan. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hong Pham)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the refugee camp, the family received daily rations of food. Ly said one day, each person received a piece of chicken, so she put everyone’s portion together to make \u003cem>miến gà\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the blog, Tung described feeling grateful to eat \u003cem>miến gà\u003c/em> with his family, reunited and free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thinking what could have been and the remote odds of seeing my family together so soon, I ate this simple dish with such happiness,” he said. “It was the most satisfying and unforgettable meal I’ve ever experienced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ly said she was thankful to her brother, who was the first in her family to arrive in the United States, for sending the money to the refugee camp so she could buy the noodles and other ingredients for the soup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At home in South Pasadena, Hong used a whole chicken — head and feet intact — he bought from a fresh poultry store to make his version of \u003cem>miến gà\u003c/em>. He placed the chicken in a boiling pot of broth, threw in the charred onion and ginger and reduced the stock to a simmer. Once the chicken was cooked, about 30 minutes later, he lifted it out of the pot and submerged it in a bowl of ice water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038059\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12038059 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_12_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_12_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_12_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_12_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_12_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_12_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MienGaMemories_12_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hong Pham cuts Chinese chives as he prepares miến gà at his home in South Pasadena on Saturday, April 12, 2025. A photo on the fridge shows Pham and his family at a refugee camp in Thailand in 1980 after they escaped Vietnam and before they resettled in the United States. \u003ccite>(Alisha Jucevic for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Next, he placed the translucent noodles into a handmade ceramic bowl, ladled in the broth and seasoned it with pungent fish sauce. He garnished the soup with chicken, shiitake mushrooms, fried shallots, scallions and fresh chives picked from his herb garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said his mom used to scoff at his precise plating technique and his insistence on pairing certain dishes with ceramic pieces that he made — a hobby he picked up during the pandemic — to make sure they “look pretty for the ‘Gram.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a generational difference, Hong said, because his mom had to cook for survival, whereas he has the luxury of consuming food “with more intention.” We gathered around his dining table and slurped \u003cem>miến gà \u003c/em>with Hong’s daughters, Mira and Emi. The noodles were slippery and the soup had an intense chicken flavor combined with the umami of shiitake mushrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Tudo was born, the Phams were admitted to the United States as refugees and resettled in Michigan with the support of a Catholic charity. They rented a house in suburban Detroit. Tung worked as a janitor and assembled machinery parts at a factory, while Ly stayed home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I came here, I didn’t know one word of English, and I didn’t know how to drive. I didn’t know anything,” she said. “But I tried to raise my kids and teach them Vietnamese so they wouldn’t lose their cultural heritage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036300\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12036300 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_22-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_22-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_22-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_22-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_22-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_22-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_22-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mira Pham, 7, helps her dad, Hong Pham, set the table to eat miến gà at their home in South Pasadena on Saturday, April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Alisha Jucevic for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the children went to school full-time, she went back to work as a butcher, a trade she did in the wet markets of Vietnam, this time at a Jewish deli. She also volunteered at her Catholic church, often by making and selling Vietnamese food to raise money for various causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My children didn’t understand why I spent so much time in church,” she said. “I explained that before we left, I prayed to God that if He delivers our family to safety, I would do everything I could to serve my faith.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family started over with almost nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hong remembers wearing secondhand clothes for years because his parents were saving money to pay back their debt. For their first Christmas, his parents wrapped empty boxes and put them under a donated tree because they couldn’t afford to buy gifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom mentioned that when we first arrived, the [sponsor] families didn’t know what we liked to eat and so they would give us canned peas, canned corn and things like that — and a lot of mashed potato flakes and macaroni and cheese,” Hong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036299\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12036299 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_21-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_21-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_21-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_21-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_21-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_21-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_21-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hong Pham dishes out miến gà at his home in South Pasadena on Saturday, April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Alisha Jucevic for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She didn’t know how to cook any of it, and instead used whatever she could find at American supermarkets to recreate Vietnamese food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that was the ingenuity of that generation. She used all these American ingredients, but it was all made in a Vietnamese way,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the way, small acts of kindness helped the family survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When someone noticed that Tung was taking the bus to get from one job to another, they offered him rides. Later, a sponsor gave him a used car and taught him to drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a collective effort, a lot of generous people in the community helped us get through a tough time,” Hong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hong said his parents constantly reminded him and his siblings how lucky they were to be in the land of opportunity and achieve their dreams. The four kids graduated from the University of Michigan and went on to earn graduate degrees. Hong became a doctor, Tam an engineer, Ngoc a public health expert, and Tudo an attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he lives far away from his parents, Hong and his wife stay connected to their heritage by speaking Vietnamese to their daughters and by sharing food with their community. They host cooking parties in their backyard to help raise funds for charities. More recently, they made an inventive version of \u003cem>banh mi\u003c/em> with brisket and homemade pickles to support victims of the Eaton wildfire in nearby Altadena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12036302 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_28-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_28-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_28-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_28-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_28-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_28-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_MIENGAMEMORIES_28-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emi Pham, 10, her sister Mira, 7, and their dad, Hong Pham, eat miến gà at their home in South Pasadena on Saturday, April 12, 2025. Miến gà is a Vietnamese chicken and glass noodle soup garnished with shiitake mushrooms, scallions, fresh chives and crispy fried shallots. \u003ccite>(Alisha Jucevic for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hong said Tung is 85 and no longer able to speak coherently due to a stroke. Ly takes care of him. Hong said he’s glad he recorded Tung’s memories of \u003cem>miến gà\u003c/em> years ago and regrets not doing more recordings while his dad was still able to speak. He said his dad was a great storyteller and had a knack for spotting Vietnam veterans wherever they went.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’d approach them really casually and thank them for their service, and next thing you know, they’ll have a long conversation,” Hong said. “He loved to share his stories and listen to other people’s stories as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If his dad could speak, Hong said he would probably say that he’s “forever grateful to America for welcoming us as a family and as a whole community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he also thinks Tung would be sad about the country’s tough immigration policies under President Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of me also would like to think he would be abhorrent about the current state of America, the freedoms that he escaped and risked his life and lives of his children for, slowly eroding away,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of The California Report Magazine’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/resilience\">series about resilient Californians\u003c/a>, and what lessons they may have for the rest of us.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“Resilience lives to blaze a trail that has not been walked before.” \u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>“Resilience sounds like cries of rebellion.” \u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>“Resilience is the passing of the wind—when you think you’ve lost, but you’ve actually won if you keep going.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are just some of the lines students across \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/el-cerrito\">El Cerrito\u003c/a> have penned about resilience, as part of a citywide project with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101909435/how-poetry-serves-civic-life\">city’s acclaimed poet laureate, Tess Taylor\u003c/a>. Nearly 600 elementary and high school students have participated in the program, culminating in this month’s release of an anthology: “\u003ca href=\"https://poets.org/text/gardening-public-flowerfest-poetry-and-civic-repair\">Gardening In The Public Flowerfest\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Poetry is] about empathy. It’s about dreaming. It’s about pleasure,” Taylor said. “And it’s this art form where you don’t need an editor or a studio. You just have a pen and paper. and the details around you. And suddenly you have a bit more power over your story and your life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor pointed out that students in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/contra-costa-county\">Contra Costa County schools\u003c/a> have some of the lowest per capita funding for\u003ca href=\"https://mapartscontracosta.org/creative-pulse-report/Creative-Pulse-Report.pdf\"> arts programming\u003c/a> in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And arts programming is really important for imaginative life,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040360\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Thomas-Poem-1-scaled-e1747343213164.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040360\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Thomas-Poem-1-scaled-e1747343213164.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A glimpse into the poetry notebook belonging to Thomas Kasuga-Jenks, a fourth grader in El Cerrito, Calif., who penned a poem about resilience. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Gabriel Cortez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fourth grader Thomas Kasuga-Jenks said poetry’s connection to resilience allows him to imagine other possibilities. “You can make things that nobody’s ever seen before,” he said. “And sometimes the things nobody’s ever seen before have them change their ways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes you’re afraid to speak it out loud. 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Unlike people, a book will never scorn me for what I write.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Le Asia Anderson, a senior at El Cerrito High, said writing helps her look for growth within herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not even like I’m searching for anything. 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Anderson said writing helps her “see new things.” \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Tess Taylor )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>I am a button \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cstrong>by Le Asia Anderson\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>I feel as if I’m a button,\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>trying in this life.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>A small button.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>hanging on by one thread.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Knowing that I’m trying.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Knowing that I’ll stay.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Right here\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>In this life,\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>In my life.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students spoke with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/californiareportmagazine\">The California Report Magazine\u003c/a> host Sasha Khokha as part of a series on Californians and resilience. To hear the students’ poems as part of this week’s episode of the show, click the red play button at the top of the page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor pointed out that students in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/contra-costa-county\">Contra Costa County schools\u003c/a> have some of the lowest per capita funding for\u003ca href=\"https://mapartscontracosta.org/creative-pulse-report/Creative-Pulse-Report.pdf\"> arts programming\u003c/a> in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And arts programming is really important for imaginative life,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040360\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Thomas-Poem-1-scaled-e1747343213164.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040360\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Thomas-Poem-1-scaled-e1747343213164.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A glimpse into the poetry notebook belonging to Thomas Kasuga-Jenks, a fourth grader in El Cerrito, Calif., who penned a poem about resilience. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Gabriel Cortez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fourth grader Thomas Kasuga-Jenks said poetry’s connection to resilience allows him to imagine other possibilities. “You can make things that nobody’s ever seen before,” he said. “And sometimes the things nobody’s ever seen before have them change their ways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes you’re afraid to speak it out loud. 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for others, shame.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The child born here, in golden halls,\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Will never know the weight of walls.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>While those who flee with hungry eyes,\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Will face a future wrapped in lies.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The world is blind to all they’ve known,\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>To all they’ve left and called their own.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>The laws that say who can belong,\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Are written in a bitter song.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>And every line, and every plea\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Is drowned by power’s endless sea.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040366\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Isaac-e1747336684675.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12040366\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Isaac-e1747336684675-800x1067.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Isaac-e1747336684675-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Isaac-e1747336684675-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Isaac-e1747336684675.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isaac Fried, 10, posed with his poetry notebook in El Cerrito High School’s radio studio on April 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Tess Taylor )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Yet still they rise, though hope is thin,\u003cbr>\nA fight to see the light within.\u003cbr>\nFor the privilege of the few,\u003cbr>\nMeans the broken dreams of me and you.\u003cbr>\nInjustice reigns, while silence falls,\u003cbr>\nAnd still, they walk—without a call.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isaac Fried, another fourth grader, sees poetry as a way to channel his inward emotions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I speak up, but sometimes there’s things I just like to keep private,” he said. “ If I write them, I can write whatever I want. Unlike people, a book will never scorn me for what I write.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Le Asia Anderson, a senior at El Cerrito High, said writing helps her look for growth within herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not even like I’m searching for anything. 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To hear the students’ poems as part of this week’s episode of the show, click the red play button at the top of the page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Frances Kakugawa is a firm believer that the act of caring for another human being can inspire poetry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She knows this from experience, having cared for her mother, Matsue, who was diagnosed with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/alzheimers\">Alzheimer’s \u003c/a>in the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panicked that she would forget how to write her own name, Matsue penned her signature again and again and again in notebooks, Kakugawa recounted to a group of older adults at a Sacramento community center last October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the event, Kakugawa read from her poem, “Five Notebooks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Five notebooks, one hundred sheets,\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Two hundred pages, twenty two lines per page.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Twenty two thousand Matsue Kakugawa.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Twenty two thousand attempts\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>To save herself from the thief\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Who was stealing her name.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-6-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012811\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-6-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-6-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-6-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The poem “Mother Into Child, Child Into Mother,” which was the first poem Frances Kakugawa wrote about being her mother’s caregiver on Oct. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Poetry helped Kakugawa take control of the painful experience of watching her mother’s cognitive abilities decline. With pen and paper, she transformed caregiving into something profound, while preserving her mother’s dignity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the middle of chaos, writing poetry helped me make sense of what was going on,” Kakugawa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the decades since her mother was diagnosed, Kakugawa has continued inspiring other caregivers to write poetry. For about 20 years, she’s run a poetry group in Sacramento for caregivers. She helps caregivers write poetry during monthly sessions and during lectures on elder care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kakugawa believes caregivers need spaces to express themselves. The role is often all-consuming, leaving people isolated, exhausted and with little time to focus on themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12038795 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-SUZY-DEGAZON-NM-05-KQED-1020x599.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re able to process that through poetry, and become the kind of caregiver that is needed,” Kakugawa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.alz.org/professionals/public-health/state-overview/california\">1.4 million\u003c/a> unpaid caregivers in California are providing care for people with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. And the share of older adults in the state is growing, with the Public Policy Institute of California \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-aging-population/\">projecting \u003c/a>almost one-quarter of Californians to be age 65 or older by 2040. That means many more people caring for older adults may be looking for avenues to relieve stress and share their experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have documented the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7447694/\">positive impact\u003c/a> of poetry on emotional well-being, but research examining whether writing poetry helps caregivers specifically is limited. A 2011 clinical trial \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21859411/\">tested \u003c/a>the effectiveness of writing poetry for family caregivers of people with dementia. The caregivers saw a range of benefits to writing poems, like a sense of pride, catharsis and greater acceptance of their loved ones and their illnesses. .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One example described in the trial was a woman who had been irritated by the constant laughter of her spouse. After writing a poem, “she realized that his laugh was the only sound left to her husband; suddenly, it became something to hold onto and to preserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Caregiver Confidential’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At his home in Sacramento, Ross Powers flipped through a manuscript of poems he wrote during Kakugawa’s poetry group. He’s calling the manuscript “Caregiver Confidential.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poems are about caregiving for his late wife, Michela, who died in 2022. Michela had been diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy, a condition that causes dementia and problems with movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-17-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012813\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-17-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-17-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-17-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-17-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-17-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-17-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-17-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ross Powers’ home decorated with artwork made by his late wife, Michela Maiden, in Sacramento on Oct. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her artwork fills the walls of his living room and her presence is everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and Michela started dating in the 1980s. She was clever, funny and naturally curious, knowing the right questions to ask to keep conversations flowing. She liked to entertain those around her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Michela’s condition worsened, she lost the ability to read or write. She depended on her husband for everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Powers tried joining a support group, but the mood was too dark for him. Then he learned about Kakugawa’s poetry group, and that changed everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These were people who were willing to talk, not just in an ordinary conversation, but they were willing to try and squeeze their emotions into some other form,” Powers said. “It might be an exaggeration to say it saved my life, but it saved some part of my sanity. It gave me a place to stand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Writing poetry helped him process this massive and confusing responsibility of caring for his wife. She needed him, and he would be there for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being of service to her was probably the great privilege of my life,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040339\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-DIPTYCH-1-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040339\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-DIPTYCH-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"841\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-DIPTYCH-1-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-DIPTYCH-1-KQED-800x269.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-DIPTYCH-1-KQED-1020x343.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-DIPTYCH-1-KQED-160x54.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-DIPTYCH-1-KQED-1536x517.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-DIPTYCH-1-KQED-2048x689.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-DIPTYCH-1-KQED-1920x646.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Ross Powers speaks about his experience as a dementia caregiver for his late wife, Michela Maiden, at his home in Sacramento on Oct. 29, 2024. Right: Ross Powers holds a photo of his late wife, Michela Maiden, who was diagnosed with a form of dementia, at their home in Sacramento on Oct. 29, 2024. Ross Powers was his wife’s caregiver for 3 years. Ross now attends Frances Kakugawa’s poetry support group for dementia caregivers. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In his poem “Nursing,” Powers writes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>place an arm around shoulders\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>lean close, study her eyes \u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>for signs of their meaning\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>slice, dice, crush, blend \u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>something she can swallow\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>bathe her, dress her\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>prep the meds, liquids, liquids \u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>always the liquids…\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Oh, call it nursing, so what?\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>call it care-giving or compassion\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>call it love if you want to\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Am I the caregiver or the receiver?\u003cstrong>’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Poems written by the caregivers also document a fleeting experience in time, memorializing the stories of the caregivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Brenda Sue Pignata lost her husband, Frank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were both math teachers. When they met, Frank was the assistant headmaster at Sacramento Country Day School, and Pignata taught in Stockton. He asked her to dance during a math conference. He loved airplanes, and on one of their first dates, he flew her around in a little airplane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During their 40-plus-year marriage, the dancing continued with disco lessons, even after the craze was popular. They lived together in the unincorporated community of Rescue, Calif., calling it their “little piece of heaven.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview last spring, Pignata said she began noticing signs Frank’s health was declining around 2007. Her husband had always been a gentle soul, she said, but he started becoming easily frustrated as his short-term memory declined. The family rallied around him, though “nobody ever used the word dementia, nobody ever used the word caregiver,” Pignata said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gardening and journaling became her refuge. Pignata said Frank, who needed the comfort of knowing exactly where she was, would sit on the deck of their home and watch while she gardened. He continued to write her love letters and leave little notes for her to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12035436 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230401-Brittianna-Robinson-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just months after her husband, Pignata, also died suddenly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Pignata’s home in Rescue, her son Mike Smith read poems his mother wrote about caregiving for the first time. He worried his mother was so consumed with Frank that she neglected herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But writing poems about caregiving seemed to lift a weight off his mother’s shoulders. And now he has his mother’s poetry to read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is so much of her in this house. Everything I look at reminds me of her — and of him,” Smith said. “She has so much writing for me to read and learn what was going on in her mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pignata was working on a book, “Dancing with Mr. P: Disco to Dementia,” that her son hopes to finish someday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Pignata’s poems is about how she grew to appreciate simple moments with Frank. It’s called “Am I the caregiver or the care receiver?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know she learned so much about caring for dementia patients, and dealing with the feelings of guilt, sadness, sorrow and grief,” Smith said. “And I guarantee you that other people are going to find that valuable. I just need to be able to get it out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The force holding the poets together\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Diane Woodruff, a caregiver from an earlier cohort, poetry helped express her gratitude to Kakugawa after the poetry teacher danced hula at the Alzheimer’s facility where her mother stayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the piece, Woodruff described how Kakugawa transformed into a hula goddess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>I learned a valuable lesson from my poetry teacher and the Hawaiian hula goddess that day \u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>It is important to continue to create fun in the darkest times and places\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Laughter is the medicine of the Gods\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>It helps us get through the toughest times \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-2-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012810\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-2-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-2-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-2-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frances Kakugawa interacts with her mall friends at the Arden Fair in Sacramento on Oct. 29, 2024. The group walks around the mall almost daily every morning. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hearing so many poems about pain and redemption, compassion and frustration and love over the years has inspired Kakugawa, but it has also left her feeling burned out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As caregivers gradually leave the poetry group over time, she expects it to fade away on its own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up in Hawaii, Kakugawa decided she was going to become a writer when she was six years old. She kept her poetry a secret for years and escaped to the outhouse to enjoy rare moments of privacy and read whatever she could find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now she shares her poetry with strangers — everyone from caregivers to older adults she meets at a shopping mall near her Sacramento home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s working on a book called “The Outhouse Poet: Reflections of a Writer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kakugawa expects that book to be her last. She’s ready to relax — and to take care of herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reporter \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/hmcdede\">Holly J. McDede\u003c/a> is a writer with the Investigative Reporting Program at the \u003ca href=\"https://journalism.berkeley.edu/\">UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism\u003c/a>. She covered this story through a grant from \u003ca href=\"https://www.thescanfoundation.org/\">The SCAN Foundation\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the event, Kakugawa read from her poem, “Five Notebooks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Five notebooks, one hundred sheets,\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Two hundred pages, twenty two lines per page.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Twenty two thousand Matsue Kakugawa.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Twenty two thousand attempts\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>To save herself from the thief\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Who was stealing her name.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-6-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012811\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-6-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-6-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-6-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The poem “Mother Into Child, Child Into Mother,” which was the first poem Frances Kakugawa wrote about being her mother’s caregiver on Oct. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Poetry helped Kakugawa take control of the painful experience of watching her mother’s cognitive abilities decline. With pen and paper, she transformed caregiving into something profound, while preserving her mother’s dignity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the middle of chaos, writing poetry helped me make sense of what was going on,” Kakugawa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the decades since her mother was diagnosed, Kakugawa has continued inspiring other caregivers to write poetry. For about 20 years, she’s run a poetry group in Sacramento for caregivers. She helps caregivers write poetry during monthly sessions and during lectures on elder care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kakugawa believes caregivers need spaces to express themselves. The role is often all-consuming, leaving people isolated, exhausted and with little time to focus on themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re able to process that through poetry, and become the kind of caregiver that is needed,” Kakugawa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.alz.org/professionals/public-health/state-overview/california\">1.4 million\u003c/a> unpaid caregivers in California are providing care for people with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. And the share of older adults in the state is growing, with the Public Policy Institute of California \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-aging-population/\">projecting \u003c/a>almost one-quarter of Californians to be age 65 or older by 2040. That means many more people caring for older adults may be looking for avenues to relieve stress and share their experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have documented the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7447694/\">positive impact\u003c/a> of poetry on emotional well-being, but research examining whether writing poetry helps caregivers specifically is limited. A 2011 clinical trial \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21859411/\">tested \u003c/a>the effectiveness of writing poetry for family caregivers of people with dementia. The caregivers saw a range of benefits to writing poems, like a sense of pride, catharsis and greater acceptance of their loved ones and their illnesses. .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One example described in the trial was a woman who had been irritated by the constant laughter of her spouse. After writing a poem, “she realized that his laugh was the only sound left to her husband; suddenly, it became something to hold onto and to preserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Caregiver Confidential’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At his home in Sacramento, Ross Powers flipped through a manuscript of poems he wrote during Kakugawa’s poetry group. He’s calling the manuscript “Caregiver Confidential.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poems are about caregiving for his late wife, Michela, who died in 2022. Michela had been diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy, a condition that causes dementia and problems with movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-17-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012813\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-17-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-17-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-17-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-17-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-17-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-17-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241029_CAREGIVINGPOETS_GC-17-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ross Powers’ home decorated with artwork made by his late wife, Michela Maiden, in Sacramento on Oct. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her artwork fills the walls of his living room and her presence is everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and Michela started dating in the 1980s. She was clever, funny and naturally curious, knowing the right questions to ask to keep conversations flowing. She liked to entertain those around her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Michela’s condition worsened, she lost the ability to read or write. She depended on her husband for everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Powers tried joining a support group, but the mood was too dark for him. Then he learned about Kakugawa’s poetry group, and that changed everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These were people who were willing to talk, not just in an ordinary conversation, but they were willing to try and squeeze their emotions into some other form,” Powers said. “It might be an exaggeration to say it saved my life, but it saved some part of my sanity. It gave me a place to stand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Writing poetry helped him process this massive and confusing responsibility of caring for his wife. 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