ヤニ・ゲルマンのインスタグラム(yanigellman) - 9月17日 08時02分

Dad would’ve been 89 years old today. Wherever we drove he would say “when I was a kid all this was farmland”. I don’t know if he actually knew that or if he was just playing the averages. He told me during the Depression he would put a wet rag on his chest 'cause they didn’t have AC, but I think he was just motivating me to keep our electricity bill down. He taught me the correct way to pick up a scorpion is with chopsticks. He would demonstrate what he would do in a fight, a “snap kick” to the other man's knee, because he “can run faster on two legs than anyone can run on one”. There was no problem in my life to which Dad couldn’t reply with a worse situation he had survived. We went canoeing in the ocean & the canoe sank & I clung to his back, choking him, saying “don’t worry Dad, I’ve got you”. Dad always lived on the other side of the world, but somehow this made us closer 'cause when it was too late to call anyone he was always up to talk (his Skype account still says something like “away” or “busy” or some other cosmic joke.) As a kid I would hug him around his waist, inside the jacket. The warmest & safest feeling you’re ever gonna have. When his hair got messed up in wind he would turn very serious & ask me if it made him look “like a clown”. He would lose his glasses wherever we went, so our outings were like scavenger hunts, punctuated by him sneezing violently without any tissues & his hair getting messed up in wind. All Dad wanted was a good bowl of noodles, at a below average price. My sister calls him the original “gastronomer”, he would climb mountains for authentic cuisine & then chide us for eating too fast. (“But Dad we’re hungry, we just climbed a mountain”). He carried tabasco at all times. He could play the guitar, spoke Gypsy, lived everywhere, melted women’s hearts with his words, there was no problem he couldn’t make ok just by remembering one of his stories. When he got sick I thought “ok, when’s Dad gonna figure this out”. At one point, as the day neared, he beckoned me to his bedside & said in a serious tone “Son, I have to tell you something”. He paused. & then whispered “you need a breath mint.” I love you Pappo. I miss you. Always

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