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Good post HJ. However, when we have children, why do we say, "Boy, I'm started to sound like my father." 
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HJFinAZ: Everyone has his own fingerprints. The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.
--Charles R. Brown
We are often amazed at how different members of the same family seem to be. Contrasts are often great: one child might be loud and funny, one might be timid and quiet, and yet neither seems to take after the parents.
A family is like a vegetable garden. The vegetables respond to outside influences. The one exposed to more sunlight will grow differently than the one growing in a damp, shady place. Vegetables growing in crowded areas of the garden may not be as developed as those around them, but they might be tastier.
Although we may have common roots, outside experiences and friends mold us too, making each of us unique. We sometimes lose ourselves by comparisons and feel as if we don't belong, but the variety of our family garden is what makes the world so interesting.
How can I honor another person's uniqueness today?
--Charles R. Brown
We are often amazed at how different members of the same family seem to be. Contrasts are often great: one child might be loud and funny, one might be timid and quiet, and yet neither seems to take after the parents.
A family is like a vegetable garden. The vegetables respond to outside influences. The one exposed to more sunlight will grow differently than the one growing in a damp, shady place. Vegetables growing in crowded areas of the garden may not be as developed as those around them, but they might be tastier.
Although we may have common roots, outside experiences and friends mold us too, making each of us unique. We sometimes lose ourselves by comparisons and feel as if we don't belong, but the variety of our family garden is what makes the world so interesting.
How can I honor another person's uniqueness today?
This is so true...
Do you think though we are shaped by genes or nurture or a little of both....
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Tamarin: This is so true...
Do you think though we are shaped by genes or nurture or a little of both....
Do you think though we are shaped by genes or nurture or a little of both....
All of the above and a lot more! We can choose to love and to live or we can choose to shelter ourselves..
I have learned I have made no mistakes in life, I have had many great learning experiences. Even here, many have been my teachers..
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From the time I was 15, when I found out my Dad wasn't my Dad per say and was also told how I was truly conceived, I started on a slow downward spiral. Took many years of healing and understanding and forgiving to get where I am now. When family and firends tall me you look just like Mom it makes my day. She was a beautiful and fantastic lady and I am so proud to carry any of her German heritage with me.
Thank You HJ, A tear or two, but well worth it.
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Excellent post, HJ...and many different things contribute to make us each unique.
I particularly like the part about your own color in the pattern...
I think of my family garden as being much broader than just my genetic family, btw...I think we're all connected and related, and I honor that. "Mitakyue oyasin" is a Native American saying (Lakota, I think) that means "All my relations", and refers to all life forms past, present, and future and animal, vegetable, and mineral. It's what we say as we go into the Medicine Wheel when I go to The Mesa for ceremonies, as we honor the fact that ALL life is related to us, and thereby should be revered and respected. And it's something I've taught my sons for years. I've made them apologize to trees for hitting them with sticks or throwing rocks at them. It has taught them respect for all life, and each person.
I particularly like the part about your own color in the pattern...
I think of my family garden as being much broader than just my genetic family, btw...I think we're all connected and related, and I honor that. "Mitakyue oyasin" is a Native American saying (Lakota, I think) that means "All my relations", and refers to all life forms past, present, and future and animal, vegetable, and mineral. It's what we say as we go into the Medicine Wheel when I go to The Mesa for ceremonies, as we honor the fact that ALL life is related to us, and thereby should be revered and respected. And it's something I've taught my sons for years. I've made them apologize to trees for hitting them with sticks or throwing rocks at them. It has taught them respect for all life, and each person.
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HJFinAZ: We sometimes lose ourselves by comparisons and feel as if we don't belong, but the variety of our family garden is what makes the world so interesting.
Sounds like the forums.....
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HJFinAZ: Everyone has his own fingerprints. The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.
--Charles R. Brown
We are often amazed at how different members of the same family seem to be. Contrasts are often great: one child might be loud and funny, one might be timid and quiet, and yet neither seems to take after the parents.
A family is like a vegetable garden. The vegetables respond to outside influences. The one exposed to more sunlight will grow differently than the one growing in a damp, shady place. Vegetables growing in crowded areas of the garden may not be as developed as those around them, but they might be tastier.
Although we may have common roots, outside experiences and friends mold us too, making each of us unique. We sometimes lose ourselves by comparisons and feel as if we don't belong, but the variety of our family garden is what makes the world so interesting.
How can I honor another person's uniqueness today?
--Charles R. Brown
We are often amazed at how different members of the same family seem to be. Contrasts are often great: one child might be loud and funny, one might be timid and quiet, and yet neither seems to take after the parents.
A family is like a vegetable garden. The vegetables respond to outside influences. The one exposed to more sunlight will grow differently than the one growing in a damp, shady place. Vegetables growing in crowded areas of the garden may not be as developed as those around them, but they might be tastier.
Although we may have common roots, outside experiences and friends mold us too, making each of us unique. We sometimes lose ourselves by comparisons and feel as if we don't belong, but the variety of our family garden is what makes the world so interesting.
How can I honor another person's uniqueness today?
In response to: We sometimes lose ourselves by comparisons and feel as if we don't belong, but the variety of our family garden is what makes the world so interesting.
Well,Paul Y. always told me,"Don't Compare,Identify!"
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We are often amazed at how different members of the same family seem to be. Contrasts are often great: one child might be loud and funny, one might be timid and quiet, and yet neither seems to take after the parents.
A family is like a vegetable garden. The vegetables respond to outside influences. The one exposed to more sunlight will grow differently than the one growing in a damp, shady place. Vegetables growing in crowded areas of the garden may not be as developed as those around them, but they might be tastier.
Although we may have common roots, outside experiences and friends mold us too, making each of us unique. We sometimes lose ourselves by comparisons and feel as if we don't belong, but the variety of our family garden is what makes the world so interesting.
How can I honor another person's uniqueness today?