June 18, 2023

One idea to keep it slow and simple… Ask a dad

This Simply Sunday, we celebrate both Father’s Day and Juneteenth. In reading about and reflecting on these two days, I ran across Maya Angelou’s words about preserving our histories.

She reminds us that enslaved people could rarely write down or keep anything - they could not preserve written histories, giving so much more weight to the stories of elders, the scraps of knowledge passed down, and the objects that managed to pass from one generation to the next.

Collectively, our fathers and grandfathers are knowledge keepers. Through their memories, their stories, their hobbies, and their skills—they hold great wealth and deep knowing.

What stories do the fathers in your life hold? What histories do the papas preserve for us? Today is a wonderful day to ask and to listen.

And some clickable fun

We love to discover and share, so we’ve added three cool clickables. And just so you know, when we list products, it’s just because we like them. We’re not sponsored by anything but our dreams and imaginations.

• “Juneteenth is the oldest internationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. From its Galveston, Texas origin in 1865, the observance of June 19th as the African American Emancipation Day has spread across the United States and beyond.” Learn more and celebrate at https://www.juneteenth.com.

• The fathers in your life might not know they want a poem, but they do. Find one here.

• This is what it looks like when nature claims its space! We’re into it. “Amazing underwater sculptures appear on Great Barrier Reef.”