Grady Loy:  

Life I spent my childhood (or most of it) on a ranch the Verde Valley along Oak Creek and up on the Mogollon Rim in Arizona and rode and walked the trails there before it was quite as settled and well known as it is now (as did likewise many of you who were my classmates). I knew many nice people there. I went away to study at the University of Arizona and after changing my mind two or three times as to what my goal was graduated from the law college there. Tucson was also a very lovely place that has changed much, in some ways for the better and in some ways perhaps less so. I am now a lawyer for Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc in Tokyo Japan. Poor Tokyo is changed utterly everytime it is bombed, burned, subjected to an earthquake, some prehistoric dinosaur stomps on it or all the Japanese major league baseball stars leave and go to the US. But we are used to it. The hilltop where my son went to school and which overlooks the sea was in old times said to be the home of Urashima Taro who went and lived 100 years in the Kingdom under the Sea and came back to find everyone he knew dead and gone (His father's grave is meticulously cared for at a nearby temple) a little further down the road is a stream where the locals say a Kappa lived in a pool under a waterfall. Just 500 met...Expand for more