tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098209577865673818.post6213619108792603350..comments2023-09-09T01:02:47.867-07:00Comments on Nutwood Archives: Viva la difference!Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05149068921334726430noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098209577865673818.post-21948306247024141692008-06-25T18:26:00.000-07:002008-06-25T18:26:00.000-07:00Times and emotions have certainly changed over the...Times and emotions have certainly changed over the years. We have come a long way, and November will remind us if we have arrived, or if we still have a ways to go :o)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098209577865673818.post-19642242663866248572008-06-25T18:55:00.000-07:002008-06-25T18:55:00.000-07:00Oh, Beth, thank you for this essay. It strikes de...Oh, Beth, thank you for this essay. It strikes deep with me having been a misfit all my life. There was something that could be described as a family, but only in name. For example, I didn't even know I had an Aunt Mary until I read my father's obituary. I liked classical music as a boy. Kids at school didn't berlieve me. They thought I was just showing off, trying to be superior. The same thing with the literature I liked to read. I was called a liar by my 6th Grade teacher for saying that I liked to watch the UN proceedings on TV. My 5th Grade teacher scorned me for saying I wanted to go to the moon. I guess I was intimidating people without knowing it. Now I'm self-educated and away from the world. If someone asks me if I'm a such and so, I answer "sometimes."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098209577865673818.post-70446043699767876202008-06-25T19:12:00.000-07:002008-06-25T19:12:00.000-07:00Oh yeah. Preach on. I will have a similar post c...Oh yeah. Preach on. I will have a similar post complete with personal antidotes either tomorrow or Friday! Great minds think alike!<br>TraciAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098209577865673818.post-51166823980976061892008-06-26T05:08:00.000-07:002008-06-26T05:08:00.000-07:00Guess I'll have to read the book to find out how h...Guess I'll have to read the book to find out how he reacted to meeting<br>his Kenya family. Also interested in his youth, growing up in Hawaii<br>with mother's family. Have only read quotes from it and those were<br>chosen for their questionable aspects. We should try to get behind<br>the rhetoric and know the MAN before we vote in November. Very<br>interesting entry, Beth, and timely. Keep writing. Hugs, PatAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098209577865673818.post-84305813207598067542008-06-26T07:19:00.000-07:002008-06-26T07:19:00.000-07:00I can relate on so many levels. Growing up and hav...I can relate on so many levels. Growing up and having a mother you made sure you KNEW what your heritage was yet not allowing you the freedom to be. I was often told not to let anyone know I was a halfbreed (her words) and wasn't allowed in the sun for long periods for fear my skin would darken. I grew up on the other side of Reservation life, what many refer to as the new age indian. These people pretty much deny heritage and history, whereis the reservation denies change and modern principles. Now I'm finding at soon to be 43 I can balance between both worlds. Add in growing up with a disability ....I definitely think you hit it on the nail. It's not a black and white thing we all experience some form of racial divide at some time in our lives. Well said hon! (Hugs)Indigo<br>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098209577865673818.post-28744947606169259972008-06-26T08:36:00.000-07:002008-06-26T08:36:00.000-07:00... I haven't read the book, but I remember what w...... I haven't read the book, but I remember what was said about it on NPR ..!<br><br>... he had major challenges that makes him have more in common on the inside with people, than the differences on the outside ... perhaps that is why we aren't to worry about our clothes in the next world ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098209577865673818.post-50092557140818684402008-06-26T13:13:00.000-07:002008-06-26T13:13:00.000-07:00I appreciate your response to Obama's book, as wel...I appreciate your response to Obama's book, as well as your own reflections about growing up and fitting in. I want to read this book, now that you've brought it up... especially regarding how his meeting his Kenya familyl went. Thanks for sharing this... well written, and well connected to your own life.. to our lives. You are so right about that: our humanity. Sometimes our world seems so big, and other times it seems so small. It's both at that same time. In any given moment, it seems unimaginably large... but looking at it from the perspective of time and the universe, it seems minute and inconsequential. Thanks for pointing this book out to me... it's now on my list of books to read this summer! and thank you for joining in the vigil for Barry. bea<br><br>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098209577865673818.post-47172867624695160752008-07-02T15:00:00.000-07:002008-07-02T15:00:00.000-07:00good entry thoughtfully written and well executed!...good entry thoughtfully written and well executed!<br>happy 4th<br>love,natalieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com