Aloha everyone from Japan!

Landsberg Adventure Day One.

What I’ve written here is all beginnings - any number of beginnings - new, old, extended. But no endings, not today. I have a lot to say and share and I hope you stick around to read it but for me I think the importance is  in the telling  -  at least  today.

Here’s the one sentence Landsberg family recap:

A week ago we sold, gave, or trashed everything we owned and moved to Japan.

I know there’s a TON of questions everyone has so here’s the long version of the recap above:

I moved to  Hawaii in 2001 to pursue my law degree searching for a new adventure. Hawaii has always been good to me - I’ve made some of the best friends of my life. I’ve been welcomed with open arms by my extended family, the Akeo’s, the Lees, the Miyashiro’s   the Fiatoa’s. I had the best training as a trial lawyer anyone could ask for at the Honolulu Office of the Public Defender and when the opportunity arose I had a legal practice that was more successful than it had any right to be.

Ten years later I married my beautiful wife who loves and supported me through the next ten years as we started raising our two amazing kids - Marcus and Maxi.

A conscientious Lawyer’s office.

~and then the day came when looked around my 41st story penthouse office, Christian Lassen painting hanging a on the wall, from the leather couch that I started to spend more time laying askance than I did behind my oversized desk with the obscenely expensive chair which I bought before I understood what “write-it-off” meant and realized that what I wanted to do at 25 was not the same thing I wanted to do at 45. I always knew I was not living in my last chapter  - but is this the final book, or is it time to figure out the sequel trilogy?

Yoshiko already had a vacation planned to visit for two months the friends and family she hadn’t seen in Japan before the world shut down in March of 2020. It was to be the first time her mother met our youngest. (When this finally happened is a story to tell another time.) So when the landlord at the place we moved into right before the pandemic chose to raise our rent by $5000 a year (again, only the beginning of the story here) it made the choice to move out easy. When the Supreme Court of the State of Hawaii made a ruling that caused about 80% of my caseload to be dismissed with positive results, that gave me the opportunity to decide (and the financial cushion) if I wanted to rebuild the practice - and the fact that I was even using words like “if” and “rebuild” made me realize: I had been decided.

But I had one more case to finish…

(I got a message the is the max length for this letter - more tomorrow!)