Delray Beach- Looking Back
This week we received copies of a book written about my grandparents and a particular time in history that was not hidden from us but never really discussed much. As a child, I remember hearing all kinds of stories about when they lived in Arkansas and Mississippi. But for the most part, they did not appear to hold grudges or place blame on others.
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us. Harry Emerson Fosdick
It wasn’t part of their makeup to dwell in the past.
And, I began thinking of all that we’ve inherited from my grandfather, grandmother (Kate), my aunt, uncle and my mother as well all those who came before us.
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To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities. Frank Delaney
If your parents are still with you, I encourage you to consider sitting down with them and capturing their recollections and history.
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. Laurence J. Peter
Childhood has a funny way of making you not interested in where you came from. It’s not until you get where you’re going that you wish you knew more about the roads that led up to your beginning.
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children. Sam Levenson
Have a weekend learning of your past.
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