“Remember where you came from.”

Donald Rumsfeld

Lately, we’ve been attending a number of funerals ‘up home’, as my older cousin Howard calls the place we grew up. At the recent repast of my 97-year-old aunt, one long-lost younger cousin said something as we parted, that stuck in my mind—Remember where you came from. 

You know how something pops up repeatedly and grabs your attention? Well, in my busy world of lists between meditation, checking and mostly deleting emails, this statement kept ‘calling’ me; so I did my usual way of researching and googled. This led me to Donald Rumsfeld, secretary of state under US presidents, Gerald Ford and George W. Bush, along with fifty-some other quotes from him. I recognized his name, but nothing else about him. Embarrassing fact, I admit. But that remains a subject for another blog—his wisdom for then and now.  However, in my next blog I want to elaborate on the subject I’ve deviated from, this one five-word quote.