Month: June 2020

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the things we try to teach our children. There’s so much I want them to understand or to be able to do as they get older, and it’s hard to know where to start or what’s actually important. It’s got me thinking about my parents and all they taught me over the years, and what they continue to teach me. And since it’s Fathers’ Day this weekend, and since my dad has taught me an awful lot, I thought I’d share a few nuggets of his wisdom with you all.

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Over the last few days the world has been shaken, hard. We’re in the midst of a crippling pandemic, killing hundreds of thousands and infecting millions across the globe. That’s big news. It’s taken over the papers and news sites and social media almost since the start of the year. But last week there was a different piece of big news. About 1 death. And that 1 death has sent ripples and waves and now a tsunami of reactions rolling throughout the globe.

That 1 death is of course George Floyd. It’s 1 death, but it’s also the latest in a line of countless deaths. Deaths that happen because we don’t understand how to live with our differences.

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