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Frequently,
grandparents
are raising their grandchildren because parents, due to alcoholism, domestic violence and general apathy, cannot raise them.
Their mother, their father, their aunt, their uncle, their grandparents, whoever it might have been who had gotten them to this point.
Well we can report, in fact, that we're
grandparents.
For me, I have three young boys, and I want them to have a really good relationship with their
grandparents.
Of course, from their
grandparents
and even their great-grandparents.
It's a lot of traditional imposing coming by authority figures such as the men, the
grandparents
and so on.
So when you think about your parents or your grandparents, at best they may have created some photos or home videos, or a diary that lives in a box somewhere.
Who were my
grandparents?
One is that you and I all have between 30 to 50,000 chemicals in our bodies that our
grandparents
didn't have.
Made in 1939, the film is older than most of our members
' grandparents.
Quite recently she told me that in 1948, two of her sisters and my father traveled on a boat to Israel without my
grandparents.
Every summer when I was growing up, I would fly from my home in Canada to visit my grandparents, who lived in Mumbai, India.
To make things worse, my
grandparents
didn't have an air conditioner.
All four of my grandparents, for example, left school in their early adolescence.
I didn't say goodbye to anybody, not my mother, my father, my sisters, my brothers, my aunts, my uncles, my cousins, my grandparents, nobody.
But I had my grandparents, my maternal
grandparents
Joseph and Shirley, who adopted me just before my third birthday and took me in as their own, after they had already raised five children.
Now I never really asked my
grandparents
for anything.
My
grandparents
were very proud, and I moved to Boston, and I set up shop.
My grandparents, they were in the middle of it.
Now my
grandparents
are no longer living, so to honor them, I started a scholarship at the Worcester Art Museum for kids who are in difficult situations but whose caretakers can't afford the classes.
Do you know where your
grandparents
were born?
Both my parents were educators, my maternal
grandparents
were educators, and for the past 40 years, I've done the same thing.
Because when my
grandparents
were born, they pretty much had their sense of home, their sense of community, even their sense of enmity, assigned to them at birth, and didn't have much chance of stepping outside of that.
And nowadays, at least some of us can choose our sense of home, create our sense of community, fashion our sense of self, and in so doing maybe step a little beyond some of the black and white divisions of our
grandparents'
age.
Movement is a fantastic privilege, and it allows us to do so much that our
grandparents
could never have dreamed of doing.
When I came home in 1955 from university at the time of Martin Luther King, a lot of people came home at that time and started having arguments with their parents and
grandparents.
And when we said to our parents and grandparents, "How would you feel if tomorrow morning you woke up black?" they said that is the dumbest thing you've ever said.
There's a saying in Toraja that all people will become grandparents, and what this means is that after death, we all become part of the ancestral line that anchors us between the past and the present and will define who our loved ones are into the future.
So essentially, we all become
grandparents
to the generations of human children that come after us.
To give me an idea of how many of you here may find what I'm about to tell you of practical value, let me ask you please to raise your hands: Who here is either over 65 years old or hopes to live past age 65 or has parents or
grandparents
who did live or have lived past 65, raise your hands please.
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