Murraytalk

Yup, it's Monday and for me it begins with Makenna - luckily I was asleep when she was dropped off this morning so she fell asleep. Usually she stays awake and is a ball of energy from the time she gets here until bedtime. I had a really good day yesterday catching up with my niece Diana from Tucson. I moved to Phoenix when she was young so it seems like funerals and facebook have really been our only connection. We're really not that far from each other, but we hate driving from Phoenix to Tucson and vice versa. But we're both going to work on all of the family getting together more often. I'm lucky if I see my sisters and brother a couple times a year - that needs to change. Speaking of family and facebook - if you're not my friend on facebook you don't know that 2 of my granddaughters made the cheer squad at their middle school - really proud of them. Also, one of my grandsons tried out for the basketball team at his school. He's in second grade and...

6th Grade Graduation Day for my grandchildren this morning.  They have been at the same school together since kindergarten and will now move up together to middle school - I think that's awesome! They are not only cousins they are best friends - prayfully their close connection will carry them through the next 6 years of school and continue as they go their separate ways to college. I am so blessed to have such great grandchildren - proud of each one! Congratulations Graduates!

When I came across this quote I thought this needs to be hung in every school, church, and office space. It needs to be on billboards for the world to see, read, and live by.                                                                                     I have always been about right and wrong - it's not always the popular way to go, but I can sleep at night so it works for me. As a result, I've had some people walk out of my life, but I have to stand by what I believe is right and wrong in my soul. So, for all you political people out there that need to take a stand on something, and voice your opinion. How about Wrong is Wrong and Right is Right.

I know I said today was going to be my day off, but I just came home from visiting a friend that was telling me about her friend's daughter that is Asian, in first grade and attending a new school. Apparently, she is being ostracized by her peers because of her ethnicity. Isn't the age of a first grader 5 or 6? This just proves my theory that racism will never end. In fact, I think it's getting worse. I base my theory on me being an interracial child (Black, Mexican, Indian & White) that was in first grade in 1965 at a predominately white school; meaning no Blacks. This was my life through school until the last two years of high school when a couple of Black students came. If there were any signs of racism I didn't see it or hear it... don't you think I should have considering the era?  So maybe that's it... we've become a society that thinks it's okay to freely express our opinion of another human being without any regards to the effect it may hav...