“I wanted my children to know that they part of a long chain of humanity extending deep into the past and they had some responsibility for extending it into the future.”

Russel Baker

We are part of chain of humanity. A chain that is both our family and the whole of humanity. When we forget that, we forget both the wisdom and lessons of the past. When we forget that chain, we sit and look at our belly button. We never grow up. We are the world. The world started with us and ends with us. Not true and not a good way to live.

We are more than ourselves. We are the dreams of our parents and grandparents. We are the source of our grandchildren and the first source of their hopeful lives.

Do we really have any responsibility to our parents and grandparents? Have they given us anything? Did they work and sacrifice for us? Did some of them lay down their lives so we can live in freedom? Yes, yes, yes and yes.

Do we have any responsibility to our grandchildren?

What do we owe them? 

Does it all start and end with us?