Thursday, July 18, 2013

Old Japanese Proverb

Fall seven times, get up eight.

Not that I like looking back so often, but it sure would have been nice to have a store like Trader Joe's when I was growing up. [(free advertisement, TJ -- you're welcome...:)]

A friend of mine in Israel (an American from New Jersey), when I explained to him my stories about some of the challenges I had growing up being an immigrant with immigrant parents, trying to fit in to small-town Massachusetts, answered this way:

"I can just imagine what it must have been like for you growing up in a place like New England, always having to validate yourself - when you even weren't sure what exactly the hell you were.  I imagine it was probably very similar to growing up black."

He was right.

Ta'eem Grill for lunch!  (one more free advertisement which I do not mind at all giving out.)

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