I guess I’m at the age when I’m starting to look back over my life and think again, a little deeper, and certainly with a different perspective, on the things I’ve learned in my life. With friends and family scattered far and wide, a weblog seems like a good place to do that. (Another weblogger whose writing and insights are exquisite, can be found here. His blog may be inactive for a while, but he'll be back soon.) Since this is the season of AULD LANG SYNE, I thought it would be appropriate to start with a retrospective.
An old friend recently commented that my ‘Great Radiance’ blog is trendy because it features diversity of belief. But I wrote back to her that diversity isn’t a trend in my life, nor an ideal, it’s just ‘reality!’ I grew up in a racially, religiously and ethnically diverse neighborhood, and my parents were staunch proponents of tolerance and respect when it came to these kinds of differences. So I grew up with that perspective, and if anything, diversity has become more and more a reality of my life with the passing years.
This is one of the stories I grew up with, it’s a part of my personal mythology:
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