My Grandfather

Well, what can I say about my grandfather in particular? He was a mostly quiet man. He was simple and enjoyed sitting out on his front porch watching us grandkids playing in the front yard. My relationship with him was distant at best, I never really new the old man with tired eyes and sunbaked brown skin. The little I knew of him was that he lost his wife to a blood clot, raised most of his children by himself on a 6^th grade education and a sugar factory worker salary. I knew that my mother had a very estranged relationship with him and I think that added to the distance between him and myself. I just new this sad, almost grumpy-looking man, who didn’t say much and kept to himself.

Of Water and Words

Interesting thing: whatever labels you keep repeating to a person, that is who they will  become, especially your children. So if you keep calling someone thoughtful, considerate, beautiful, and kind they will become those things. If you keep calling someone lazy, selfish, inconsiderate, and ugly they will become those things too.

Consider this: The human body is made up mostly of water. There was an experiment done with water by Masaru Emoto in which he attached or exposed water to different words like love and gratitude to You make me sick or music like Beethoven or Heavy Metal. In these experiments he found that water reacted to whatever he exposed to it. (See the images I attach to this post.)
If words and music can do this to WATER imagine what it can do to people...

Words, while not as deadly as a bullet or other forms of weapons, are still quite powerful and dangerous if not used with care. Words, once spoken, can never be erased so be careful what you say to others. Sometimes when one is so focused on winning an argument, they lose something else.

So ask yourself: Is winning this argument worth hurting a person I care about? What are my words doing to those people I say that I love?

Meme Share of the Day 1/23/2013

History Repeats Itself

So we've all heard the cliche before: HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.

Well, it really does ring true, and just yesterday I found out why.

For a long time, I felt pain over the not so positive relationship between my biological father and myself.

As it turns out, he too was harboring a similar pain, a pain that came more to light when my younger sister tracked down our Cuban grandfather. I am actually looking at his naturalization document as I type, gazing at his signature. This person is a part of me.

Marriage and Honour

Today, I watched something that made me think about a topic near and dear to my heart: Our nation's troops and veterans and the ladies who have "loved" them.

At this point, one might wonder why I put quotes around loved but there is a rhyme to my reason.

What I was watching earlier today was a story about a double amputee vet who after being injured and medically discharged from the military, had his wife leave him.

Families come in all shapes and sizes

I had to share this one today because I was touched by what they had to share. Even though my child is biologically mine, I still get the questions and the looks because he looks of a different race from mine.

Check it out here.

Also check out their webpage here.