Core Values

Yesterday when I was visiting my Mom in the nursing home, the employees asked me a few questions about Mom's background. They wanted to know what she had done for a living. They figured it had to be something dealing with kids or being outside since she seems to respond best to both of those stimuli now days. I filled them in on the fact that she was a bookkeeper/receptionist for a union for 35 years. She did always like to garden and she had to put up with three kids.

It is funny how when you strip away all of society's pretenses you are left with the core principles and values that make you you. It makes me wonder what things I would pick to carry through to the end of my days.