Jonathan Bock

President of Grace Hill Media | author | Hollywood native | seasonal Cape Cod interloper | Jesus fanatic | perennial NL dynasty team rebuilder

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@nandoplshomer Apparently the Dodgers have no FA interest or money

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@JoshKraushaar Could be trouble at the polls for @AbdulElSayed if he still trying to lock up the Anti-Semitic vote at this late date!

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@mdthomp24 That final throw should have been caught.

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@mdthomp24 It’s not his fault.

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@HollywoodInToto Great film. Is going to be HUGE at Thanksgiving.

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If you’re wondering how to impact the world with love, it’s a simple as this:

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I've lived in the same apartment building in Tokyo for 11 years.

I know zero names.

That's normal here. We nod in the elevator. We do not speak.

Then Mike moved in on the third floor.

Ohio. Six-foot-four. Laughs like a truck starting up.

Day 1: He knocked on every door with a plate of cookies.
(In Japan, when you move in, you give your neighbors a small towel. Then you leave. Mike gave cookies. Then he stayed and talked.)

Week 1: He knew everyone's name. Including the dog's.

Then there was Mrs. Sato on the first floor.

She's 84. Her husband passed away ten years ago. She lives alone.

In 11 years, I had never heard her voice.

Every Tuesday, Mike carried her groceries up the steps. She didn't speak English. He didn't speak Japanese.

They talked anyway. Mostly about the photo of her husband by the door.

Then one morning, her curtains stayed closed.

Mike noticed.

Nobody else did. I didn't.

He knocked. No answer. He called the building manager.

She had fallen the night before. She'd been on the floor all night.

She's okay now.

But the building isn't the same.

People say good morning. The elevator has conversations.

Last month, we had our first rooftop potluck. Nobody knew what a potluck was. Mike explained it twice.

Mrs. Sato brought 40 rice balls.

And then she laughed at something Mike said.

That was the first time I ever heard her voice.

Mike moved back to Ohio this week.

On his last morning, the whole building came down to the lobby. Kids. Grandparents. The dog.

Mrs. Sato handed him a box.

Inside: one thousand paper cranes.

In Japan, you fold a thousand cranes for someone you want to protect. Her hands shake. She had been folding them since the day he found her.

Then she said the English sentence she had practiced every day for a week.

"Please... come back."

Mike was crying too hard to answer in English.

So he answered in the Japanese he had been secretly practicing.

"Kanarazu kaette kimasu."

In Japanese, that doesn't mean "I'll visit."

It's what you say when you're coming home.

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@timothykrell You understand it’s not just about the “voice” when a director hires an actor? They also act too. Streep has been nominated for 21 Oscars - I’m sure she’s going to bring a lot more to the role than most male actors.

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@Frosturselves @VoicesofWW2 Sprinting through the forest with a wood racquet and wristbands.

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@smith_marv19191 @GiancarloSopo Galaxy Quest is shockingly good

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@GiancarloSopo Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Usual Suspects
Ferris Buehler’s Day Off

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@annielcrawford @StephenKentX Some pretty wild speculation here. Love it!

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@bostonwriter Prayers for you from Cape Cod. All shall be well.

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@GiancarloSopo can't it be both?

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@BlueChipPremium can't win every hand...

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@mdthomp_PLive @TheBaseballGuy1 @Ryan_Kirschman6 And neither are the Cardinals.

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He had a 16% strikeout rate- one of the lowest in the league. He barely went 5 1/2 innings per start, so every game needed 4 innings of bullpen arms and guys warming up in the 4th and 5th.
He’s an arm who eats some innings and he got lucky this year getting 12 wins. Definitely not someone you give real money to.

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@ReBottman @mdthomp_PLive That’s not saying much. Definitely not worth almost 8mm next year.

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@livetosingxo She only made it through because she’s wearing Depends

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@badbake_offgrid It sells papers, as they used to say.