Amory Peck
When I read Michelle Obama’s memoir, Becoming, it felt like a conversation with a good friend–casual, witty, and personal. Then, as talk with a good friend often does, her words became just what I needed to hear. “For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it, instead, as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.”
Of course! No matter our age, we’re all in the process of becoming some new innovation of ourselves. Approaching eighty, I find myself sorting through memories, reconsidering what I’ve learned, and putting together the worldview I see today. I am keen to put my thoughts into words, but I’ve never been a successful journal writer. It is much easier for me to write when I can picture someone reading what I’ve said. Thank you for being the one for whom I’m posting these thoughts.
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Never Did I Ever
I’m glad I grew up where and when I did. There’s much to be said for the stable, conservative, values-driven, Christianity-influenced bedrock of the 1940s and 50s American Midwest. Family, the church, and the school system built a solid platform of values and rules of living. As children, we learned to understand the behavior required of each of us in our small Michigan town. St. Clair (population 4,500) was a good place to be raised. I’m thinking, especially, of the civics lessons I learned....
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