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Ganbatte means…..

“Go for it!”  This is the whisper that niggles my mind. Is grandma watching over me and is her voice the whisper that I have been hearing since her death almost five years ago?  “Ganbatte” was her motto. Her secret to living a long and fulfilling life.  Grandma didn’t have the easiest life but she always told me she had no regrets.  She lived by the Japanese motto “ganbatte” (or gambatte)  in other words “go for it!” “do your best!” http://cotoacademy.com/blog/japanese-study/ganbatte/ This is exactly what I am attempting to do with this blog…