Who said those who ignore the past




















Toggle navigation. And one of his last great quotes came as Franklin knew his life was near its end. Sign up for our email newsletter. Sign Up. History really does repeat itself and recently I was reminded of that while looking through a batch of old political buttons. Have you? The scourge of polio and other diseases was a terrible reality that most of us alive today apparently have forgotten.

There is a growing movement in this country to not have children inoculated because of potential links to autism. I think we ought to start passing out those buttons again.

Wade when the backlash against the Supreme Court decision was still young. Here we are 40 years later and the fight is still going on. It was revived prior to the Second World War but died on Dec. Well, America First is back.

All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one. It's not even past.

When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their foes for breakfast with a nice cup of Lapsang souchong, someone needs to tell their bits of overlapping narrative. There's magic in that. It's in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. From the mundane to the profound. You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose.

That tale will move them and drive them and who knows what they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.

Your sister may be able to see the future, but you yourself can shape it, boy. Do not forget that



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