Romantic involvement distracts you and can blind you to what’s really in front of you. And what really is in front of you? You are. You don’t even know yourself yet. You think you know and you want to assert that you do, now that you’re a certain age, but you don’t. What’s in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first. There are long-term repercussions to what you’re doing now. Everything you do, every thought you have, every word you say creates a memory that you will hold in your body. It’s imprinted on you and affects you in subtle ways—ways you are not always aware of. With that in mind, be very conscious and selective.
“She was my buddy,” says Frank of his mother Ida, “I miss her because there was always something to laugh about.” Since her 2009, Ida’s dementia has required full-time care as she fades in and out of awareness.(Kainaz Amaria/NPR)
This week NPR’s eight-week series, Family Matters: The Money Squeeze, circles back to the Hunter-Christian Family as they decide on what to do with 89-year-old Ida Christian’s home. She lived with her son, Frank, in a house they built TOGETHER, until she became too sick and had to move out.
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Enjoying reading the NPR Family Matters series. I lived in a multigenerational home until the age of 22. Hoping to find a few photos to contribute.
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When my job gets stressful, I like to watch videos that remind me of the bigger picture; Why I support the President, how I got involved in politics, the changes he’s made, moving my country forward, why I work so many hours a day.
The Heart loves service, humility, hard work, dedication, self-approval and self-trust, listening to Divine Guidance from The Uni-verse which Whispers to us, taking action even though we don’t feel like it, getting up and trying again, not blaming but taking responsibility for the outcome of our lives, empathy, and having the willingness to dig in and get our hands dirty instead of leaving our dreams up to someone else.
The Scottsboro Boys were nine young black men, falsely accused of raping two white women on board a train near Scottsboro, Alabama in 1931. Convicted and facing execution, the case of Charlie Weems, Ozie Powell, Clarence Norris, Olen Montgomery, Willie Roberson, Haywood Patterson, Eugene Williams, and Andrew and Leroy Wright sparked international demonstrations and succeeded in both highlighting the racism of the American legal system and in overturning the conviction.
On March 25, 1931, nine unemployed young black men, illegally riding the rails and looking for work, were taken off a freight train at Scottsboro, Alabama and held on a minor charge. The Scottsboro deputies found two white women, Ruby Bates and Victoria Price, and pressured them into accusing the nine youths of raping them on board the train. The charge of raping white women was an explosive accusation, and within two weeks the Scottsboro Boys were convicted and eight sentenced to death, the youngest, Leroy Wright at age 13, to life imprisonment.
