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Do You Know About Your Family History to Pass On to Your Children

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Do you know your family history or your family origin?   If you asked your parents where your grandma or your grandpa were born would they be able to tell you?  If your child asked you about their family’s origin would you be able to tell them? I became very interested in this topic after recently attending a memorial for a close family member. At the memorial several members of my family ask me questions about my dad’s family. I was asked if my father was still alive and if so where he was living, and other questions about his parents. Most of the questions I could not answer because my mom never shared with me details about my dad, his parents or my grandma and I never thought to ask until now. After the memorial, we decided to stay with my cousin overnight and drive home the next day and while sitting around the table talking with my niece she asked me if we could meet in two months for a weekend as a family to share family photos and put together photo albums f...
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The Power of Music

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Words have power and so words set to music can have even more influence.  Right now I have the song, “From a Distance” in my head.  I love the message about how you may dislike (possibly hate) something until you get close and see just what it is.  I’m relating this to how I grew up with large dogs (OK huge.  We had Newfoundland dogs) and never cared for small dogs. I did not “get” the little dog attraction.  In fairness, this was partially influenced by the comments owners of small dogs would say about my big dog.  People would actually say “That’s a big dog” as if I was clueless.  Some would suggest that my sweet, inherently gently dog would eat their dog which is not only preposterous but down right insulting.  And, my least favorite “That’s not a dog it’s a horse.”  This would cause me to suppress the voice inside my head from telling the person that my dog was a real...
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There have been many times in my life, and still some today, when I fight reality.  I want a different outcome.  I desire for things to be different than they are.  I pray for divine intervention to change the facts.  What usually occurs are that the facts remain and all I have done is to create pain and disappointment for myself.  It is said that what we resist, persists. What if instead of resisting, we accepted? Recently I was introduced to the Navajo word “Hozho.”  It is the most important word in the Navajo language.  Roughly translated it means peace, balance, beauty, and harmony.  When you are one with and part of the world around you, it is said you are “in Hozho.”  Here is how it shows up. Say there is a drought. Many of the modern religions would say to pray for rain.  Instead, the Navajo hold a ceremony to help them be at peace with the drought, to be in harmony with the drought. Said another way,...
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