Beautiful picture, did you take it? Love the words, I try to teach my boys to embrace diversity, learn about it and not turn their backs and run from it.
Yes these were all taken today by myself. This was a picture of the young gentleman that was training at the university for the next game coming up. He is from California. My intention was to take pictures today as it was my one free day all to myself - and I enjoyed it as I went to the university here in Saskatoon, and I was amazed with three people that I talked with.
The quotation of "It does not matter where you come from or where you are born, all that matters is where your head is at" is my own quotation. As I was raised not to judge a person by there color or anything else. I was raised in United States during the time where segregation was prominently happening and my father laid down the foundation of some of my own values.
This young man was probably 20 years of age, and we talked, but he was the more shy one of the other two people that I talked with and I was asking all of them questions with regards to segregation. It seems to me they all believed in things that will take the next generation far ahead when it comes to people who still think in terms of the "old school" mentality.
Being of such a diverse linage myself, I felt a very personal need to gift my children with the capacity to live wisely in a sometimes not too friendly world. We taught them that one should take pride in who they are as a person, and less so in the uncontrollable facts of their birth. Then we taught them to never be ashamed of the linage that gave them their unique moment in history. Celebrate life.
Charles when I was a kid I was sitting on the back of a lawn mower with my father and I was asking about a few things and back then it was a time of deep routed segregation. I remember it so well, and I am not kidding you, my father breached several things as he had parties now and then and I would sit around as a kid and see all these people.
Later in life, I learned that my father was called by Ottawa as Washington had called him back then as he was including some of his friends that were colored. He never changed anything and apparently he told Ottawa if this was the case then bring me back into Canada. The left it be. As a child he told me this very story that I so often have used as a quote.
It is....I lost where your last message went as I visited your blog, and seems to me your living your life much as it ought to be. I don't have children yet. I do believe in it. And when the time is there, you examplify a great family. Especially when so many leave it up to others to do the upbringing during the crucial periods of raising them.
The world begins to go around. "It's not about where we come from nor where we are born all that matters is where are head is at." ~ jgs
Oh how I wish this could be the future .......................
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As there can be.
ReplyDeleteIt can..........if only the "few" could stop ruin it all for the majority - (my thought).
ReplyDeleteBeautiful picture, did you take it? Love the words, I try to teach my boys to embrace diversity, learn about it and not turn their backs and run from it.
ReplyDeleteYes these were all taken today by myself. This was a picture of the young gentleman that was training at the university for the next game coming up. He is from California. My intention was to take pictures today as it was my one free day all to myself - and I enjoyed it as I went to the university here in Saskatoon, and I was amazed with three people that I talked with.
ReplyDeleteThe quotation of "It does not matter where you come from or where you are born, all that matters is where your head is at" is my own quotation. As I was raised not to judge a person by there color or anything else. I was raised in United States during the time where segregation was prominently happening and my father laid down the foundation of some of my own values.
This young man was probably 20 years of age, and we talked, but he was the more shy one of the other two people that I talked with and I was asking all of them questions with regards to segregation. It seems to me they all believed in things that will take the next generation far ahead when it comes to people who still think in terms of the "old school" mentality.
The further one gets away from so our called civilisation and the corrupt elements it exports, the more civilised we become.
ReplyDeleteIndeed Sir!
ReplyDeleteSounds like it was a good day there for you Jack. Hope your weekend is a goody also!!!!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely, I am just having a coffee talk...
ReplyDeleteAhh! Here is that beautiful photo again.
ReplyDeleteBeing of such a diverse linage myself, I felt a very personal need to gift my children with the capacity to live wisely in a sometimes not too friendly world.
We taught them that one should take pride in who they are as a person, and less so in the uncontrollable facts of their birth. Then we taught them to never be ashamed of the linage that gave them their unique moment in history. Celebrate life.
Charles when I was a kid I was sitting on the back of a lawn mower with my father and I was asking about a few things and back then it was a time of deep routed segregation. I remember it so well, and I am not kidding you, my father breached several things as he had parties now and then and I would sit around as a kid and see all these people.
ReplyDeleteLater in life, I learned that my father was called by Ottawa as Washington had called him back then as he was including some of his friends that were colored. He never changed anything and apparently he told Ottawa if this was the case then bring me back into Canada. The left it be. As a child he told me this very story that I so often have used as a quote.
It's a blessing to be raised by reasonable people.
ReplyDeleteIt is....I lost where your last message went as I visited your blog, and seems to me your living your life much as it ought to be. I don't have children yet. I do believe in it. And when the time is there, you examplify a great family. Especially when so many leave it up to others to do the upbringing during the crucial periods of raising them.
ReplyDeleteThey're not just holding hands, Jack...they're holding hands TIGHTLY! That is a grip that says "I'm not letting go!"
ReplyDeleteYou're right. It is captivating.
ReplyDeleteTry to make a poster of this photo and put it up somewhere - people will see trust and friendship here, if their hearts are not made of ice ........
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