Up on top of this hill.
Can you hear me?
I picture you and how you used to talk to me.
I’m looking forward to the day when you’re here with me.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Poem, 3/19/19 –
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Just my soul and I.
We talk and laugh.
Sometimes we cry.
We travel to the heavens with visions.
Clips of action of what could be.
We don’t need much.
Only ideas on how to get there.
Because we’re relentless in getting there.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Poem, 3/17/19 –
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I’m a strong believer in having a positive mindset in order to be happier and more fulfilled in life. In this post, I would like to point out the importance of us having a growth mindset, which is believing that our abilities and intelligence can be developed. We can develop our knowledge and skills by reading and practicing everyday. The more we work on our knowledge and skills, the better we get. If we keep up this daily practice, over time, we may attain the knowledge and become very good at the skills we envisioned ourselves achieving.
I like to schedule in my Google calendar blocks of time to learning and building skills and I color code them according to the subject matter. I count each 30-minute period of learning or practicing as a “win” in my Count My Wins program I created for myself. This program gives me a natural high from the happy chemicals released when I finish each 30-minute self-development session. I’m a very curious person so I push myself even in areas I’m unfamiliar with. I really want to become a better person mentally, spiritually, and physically.
Have fun in your self-development! Crush it!
3 of my daily practices: growth mindset, mindfulness, and gratitude.
(I took a picture of these plants and trees in Waikele, Hawaii on March 12, 2019. They represent growth in our growth mindset practice. I’m always mindful of the beauty around me. I’m grateful to experience such simple pleasures.)
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With the passing of my aunty JoAnn Matsumoto on February 1, 2019 due to pneumonia, I’ve fallen deeper into sadness. I feel an emptiness in my soul. Everyday I practice gratitude, mindfulness, meditation, creative writing, and my many other positive practices to keep moving forward. Nothing seems to matter to me except for those I love and my fiction and nonfiction writing for my far-reaching entertainment company. Everything in the stories I create embodies what my aunty JoAnn was: loving, caring, compassionate, emphatic, and positive. All my worse problems are small in comparison to losing my aunty. I would go to prison for my driving under the influence charge and lose more money with start-ups to have her back.
Yesterday, March 7, 2019, I attended the funeral services for my aunty JoAnn. She’s my mom’s cousin. She was like a sister for my mom Laraine and her sisters aunty Jamie and aunty Maydeen and brother Wilson because she stayed with them and their parents when she moved to Oahu for college from Hawaii island and spent so much time with them up to her recent passing.
My friends, cherish every moment with your loved ones. Them being with us makes our problems small. We can always make our comeback but we can’t get our loved ones back in physical form once they’re gone. We can always find ways to make money but that stuff doesn’t impact us the way good people do. I love you all. May peace be with you.
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Remove me from this world.
They can destroy themselves.
Let me sail away on a wave of music.
Her gentle voice calls me.
She says, “Here’s where we begin.”
“We’ll rewrite the pain we know.”
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Poem, 3/3/19 –
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Dim the light of my laptop.
Darkness moves all over me.
I play a song.
The melodic sound pulls my soul.
I float to a place where only emotions flow.
The feelings of love overwhelms me.
Tingling sensations move throughout me.
I cry.
– Poem, Jon Riki Karamatsu, 2/22/19 –
I wrote this poem in about a minute in the early morning of 2/22/19. Poems are a way for us to write at a higher emotional realm. It’s therapeutic for me. When I was younger, I would go to events & gatherings that often involved alcohol. I would work super hard, nonstop & saw charity events, business mixers, & social gatherings as a break to look forward to, a reward for the hard work I’ve done. Socializing with positive people is good but the alcohol part led me to my DUI incidents, one I called the police on myself, the other I was placed in jail & charged with refusal when I asked questions that only a prosecuting attorney would ask, which I was at the time. There’s other ways to relieve stress, anxiety, & sadness. I spend a great majority of my time with my laptop, my partner. Together, we produce things for myself & others. I catch the bus & only go to events if it’s something I have to do for my business or client, or if it’s for someone I care about. Sometimes I get rides with my mom or my business partner.
To heal my suffering, I have to go within me. By working on creative writing, especially fiction, I can live other lives, experience different places, & fall in love. The words we put on paper evoke our five senses & feelings. Every journey, like our own lives, has its conflicts. Every protagonist has his or her flaws & vulnerability. Without conflicts & character flaws, there is no story. If we did write it, it would be boring. So if you have problems & flaws in your life, you have a story! You’re our protagonist, our hero who we are rooting for!!! Keep going my friends!!!
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Dim the light of my laptop.
Darkness moves all over me.
I play a song.
The melodic sound pulls my soul.
I float to a place where only emotions flow.
The feelings of love overwhelms me.
Tingling sensations move throughout me.
I cry.
– Poem, Jon Riki Karamatsu, 2/22/19 –
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When all worlds are dead,
I will show you one that’s left.
It lives within you.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem No. 211, 12/31/2018 –
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Like you, I’m a wreck.
Playing the same song for days.
Scared of the unknown.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem No. 210, 12/24/2018 –
Sometimes, only those who go through the same struggle you’re going through, understand what it feels like. Think of that person out there, and send that person your best wishes. You’re not alone.
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I dedicate the following poem to all of the politicians, entrepreneurs, and entertainers who are filled with love, compassion, and empathy who are facing the darkness that leaches around power:
You do what you do because you want to make this world better.
But when you get there, you’re judged, criticized, and taken down.
Your work for the community gets overshadowed by whether or not your personal life is stable or broken.
They get excited when you make any mistakes or are just near any mistakes.
They don’t care if you were wronged by other powers out to get you.
They label you when they don’t know the truth.
They smile when they prepare the chains.
I saw the tears in your eyes – you don’t have to hide them.
I know how much you care for others.
The public doesn’t know you like I do.
I just want you to know, that my love is here for you.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Poem, 12/20/2018 –
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We see what they don’t.
Apparitions filling in.
Colors of our dreams.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem No. 207, 12/3/2018 –
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We don’t breathe or eat.
We can’t even fall asleep.
We watch over you.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #205, 11/28/2018 –
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Are you art or real?
My friend brought you to see me.
Your eyes follow me.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #204, 11/23/2018 –
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Design a ghost friend.
Make it feel, care, and so real.
Artificial thrill.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #203, 11/23/2018 –
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Pull me into you.
Blending feelings with flavor.
Pulsating pleasure.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #118, 3/25/2018 –
I dedicate this poem to my friend Scott Imaye who got married to Makiko at Oahu, Hawaii today, November 17, 2018. Scott, a Hawaii boy has been working as an attorney in Tokyo, Japan mainly doing work on deals between U.S. and Japanese companies. He met Makiko in Japan. I’m so happy for them!
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When you call my name,
you don’t have to admit it.
Feel you feeling me.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #193, 11/14/2018 –
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Fear my tiger eyes.
Closer to biting my prize.
I got a good vibe.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #187, 10/30/2018 –
When we have a vision of a better life and better world, we must eye it down like a tiger does its prey with patience until we execute and taste our vision and goals. I love tigers because I’m born in the year of the tiger.
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Something’s happening.
A feeling, a buzz-like high.
The light will push through.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #138, 6/27/2018 –
No matter how hard life gets, whether it be financial hardship, a death of a loved one, or a broken heart, we have to do our best to see all the good we have in our life. Day by day as we work at our projects, we get better and a bit closer to our dreams. In person and through social media, we can support one another. We’re in this together.
I took this picture in Waikele, Hawaii on 10/30/2018.
With Warmest Aloha,
Jon
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Left the noise for peace.
Training in the outer rim.
My isolation.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #186, 10/28/2018 –
Sometimes we need to cut ourselves off from the noise and hate so we can rebuild and reinvent ourselves. When we return, we’ll have more value and love to offer others and our society in a way where our critics and haters no longer recognize us.
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Strange feelings at night.
They pretend to be loved ones.
Fell asleep awake.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #182, 10/18/2018 –
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Spark them up with love.
All one needs is a flicker.
It will light the way.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #179, 10/10/2018 –
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Couldn’t sleep. Wrote more.
Woke up like I was crying.
Good to see the sun.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #178, 10/9/2018 –
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Go within and build.
People and things won’t fill us up.
Explore and create.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #177, 10/8/2018 –
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Can’t see past the arc.
Go for something or nothing.
Find out or wonder.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #176, 10/7/2018 –
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What is this I feel?
Riding a sound wave in you.
Pull me in and out.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #175, 10/5/2018 –
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Fire up your hate.
You can’t crush what you can’t catch.
Speeding to the light.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #173, 10/2/2018 –
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My wings are dying.
Secure me but don’t lock me.
Let’s fly together.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #167, 10/2/2018 –
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Softly you whisper.
Let’s turn these feelings to gold.
Transcend young and old.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #166, 10/2/2018 –
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You are so precious.
Don’t ever think otherwise.
Flowers bloom from dirt.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #157, 9/18/2018 –
I dedicate this poem to all of you. Keep your heads up!!! The flowers are from the farmers market in Hilo, Hawaii on 9/22/2018.
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Lions talk to me.
Beasts who guard the gates of death.
Heroes just hear roars.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #163, 9/23/2018 –
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Bombs fall around us.
You hold me. It’s not scary.
We burn much hotter.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #162, 9/23/2018 –
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Like an eighties song,
you can’t throw away my heart.
This story lives on.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #161, 9/23/2018 –
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We talk in silence.
Closer than when we were real.
You said, “We were dead.”
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #160, 9/23/2018 –
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At night they gain ground.
Meditate to my music.
I still hear footsteps.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #159, 9/23/2018 –
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Jane, what a feeling.
Mary, take my pain away.
I want to go home.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #155, 8/31/2018 –
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Either here or there.
Maybe after we are dead.
I will find you – love.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #154, 8/31/2018 –
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My dear, I’m still here.
Breathe. Feel the air. See the clouds.
Sun rays hugging you.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #153, 8/31/2018 –
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JON RIKI KARAMATSU 