At seventeen I left my mid-western home town to find the world. Forty years later I work with people who grew up in Ireland, Iran, South Africa, Laos and Vietnam. My best consultant ever for my accounting software grew up in India. I regularly email business colleagues living in Italy, Germany, Japan, Australia, China and South Korea. My church recently hosted an arranged marriage for a couple from India, who came to Seattle to study and who are very much in love. The same congregation honors the faithful love of a number of gay couples among us. I have a Peruvian niece, a Canadian brother and friends who live in Israel. At seventeen I left my mid-western home town to find the world and by age fifty six, in Seattle, the world had found me.
Too young to know enough to understand, too old to remember what it was like, Too impetuous, too stodgy, Too overweight, too underweight; Too left, too right, too moderate, too indifferent; Too religious, not religious, not the “right” religion; No experience, over qualified, Too one-dimensional, too “all over the place” Too positive, too negative, Too “stuck”, too risky Too modest, too boastful; Too unoriginal, too “out in left field” Too “milquetoast”, too assertive Too shy, too brazen Different and the same are we all. God gives each a good, pure heart, Shaped the same, beating life’s rhythm, and we all bleed red.
To Find the World
ReplyDeleteAt seventeen I left my mid-western home town to find the world.
Forty years later I work with people who grew up in Ireland, Iran,
South Africa, Laos and Vietnam.
My best consultant ever for my accounting software grew up in India.
I regularly email business colleagues living in
Italy, Germany, Japan, Australia, China and South Korea.
My church recently hosted an arranged marriage for a couple
from India, who came to Seattle to study and who are very much in love.
The same congregation honors the faithful love
of a number of gay couples among us.
I have a Peruvian niece, a Canadian brother and friends who live in Israel.
At seventeen I left my mid-western home town to find the world
and by age fifty six, in Seattle, the world had found me.
Judging Filters
ReplyDeleteToo young to know enough to understand, too old to remember what it was like,
Too impetuous, too stodgy,
Too overweight, too underweight;
Too left, too right, too moderate, too indifferent;
Too religious, not religious, not the “right” religion;
No experience, over qualified,
Too one-dimensional, too “all over the place”
Too positive, too negative,
Too “stuck”, too risky
Too modest, too boastful;
Too unoriginal, too “out in left field”
Too “milquetoast”, too assertive
Too shy, too brazen
Different and the same are we all.
God gives each a good, pure heart,
Shaped the same, beating life’s rhythm, and we all bleed red.
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chuckle, Nice sense of humor!
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