We Used to Want to Know (Article) - 4/24/2015 9:42:18 AM
Questions are so important but, to our demise, we are afraid to ask and would rather take the risk of harm to ourselves and love ones.
The ‘N-Word’? Powerless! (Article) - 8/20/2014 6:55:45 AM
On this issue, which you written of very well, we agree almost to a fault. Although my father was a trucker, surrounded by foul talking men, I never heard him curse except mildly, even when around other men who liberally used such words. His mother was a schoolmarm and avid reader, so she may have had a lot to do with his demeanor. My mother never uttered a bad word, even though her brother was a lexicon of them. I followed suit finding that belittling people by words only made the person who spouted them seem ignorant and ill bred.
Like you, these words slide off my back like a too hot shower. I tolerate them for the moment but have to get out from under their scorn. Lately, one of my helpers has lashed out against her nemesis, the C-word, Caucasians! I've tried to explain to her that it is a very small area in the Middle East that has little bearing to my ancestors from Germanic origin, but she insists that these C-people are the cause of much concern. Like I said before, I just let it slide off my back and go counter with any N-words in some kind of retaliation. Except in my writing, where I love to use these words to color my language in dialogue.
Keep sending us your words of wisdom…
Ron
The ‘N-Word’? Powerless! (Article) - 8/20/2014 5:14:46 AM
Respecting yourself takes real courage in a culture which insists that you respect everyone and everything first. Respect means to put other people, other ideas, other things above or before yourself. It takes a very long time to unlearn those early lessons. One can hardly treat others as 'equals' so long as you think of yourself as 'lesser' - well done.
We Used to Want to Know (Article) - 8/17/2014 8:29:05 AM
I really liked your article. It's really well written and gave me a laugh or two. I'm just like your mother with conspiracy theories. People seem to have little excitement in their lives when they have to rely on strange theories for enlightenment.
My mother was quite liberal with children we brought home. However, I never brought someone home that I didn't know very well until I was in college and later when I picked up hitchhikers and brought them home. Two of her greatest shocks were when I brought home a hippie couple I picked up in Canada. The thoughtful young lady made coffee and served my mother when she and my father came home from a softball game. The young man was a student at Harvard, and she was a student at Wellesley. I also brought a Chinese graduate student home one Thanksgiving. She was the daughter of a Johns Hopkins educated doctor from Taipei. My mother had thoughts of me marrying her… I should have.
I recall my girlfriend who had six children. Her house was always being invaded by suspicious strangers that her kids dragged in.
Ron
Tevevision Fast (Article) - 9/26/2011 4:33:17 PM
Jambo Wambui, I agree with you about the TV. Haven't had one for over 20 yrs. Question is, did the computer come in to take its place?
I ask because my kids made the laptop a substitute for the TV.
Maybe It’s Going To Be Beautiful Today (Poetry) - 11/13/2014 2:45:30 PM
Delighftully uplifting and meaningful; thank you for sharing this gift, Wambui. Love, peace, and best wishes,
Regis
Maybe It’s Going To Be Beautiful Today (Poetry) - 8/20/2014 12:47:52 AM
I think it is.
I think it sings.
As your name...Wambui...does.
Singer of songs...indeed.
