Childhood Dreams
Children must be taught how to think not what to think. ~ Margaret Mead 9/11 was a special day for me for 33 years before it became a significant date to the world. I was born into this incarnation on September 11 th 1968. My family comes from a long line of Mormons that extends back to the very beginning of the Mormon Church. My great grandfather, my mother’s paternal grandfather, knew the prophet Joseph Smith. That fact was a big deal to our family. (Joseph Smith Jr. was the founding prophet of the Mormon Church.) This was possible because my great-grandfather was 69 years old when my grandfather was conceived. That paints an interesting picture in your mind, doesn’t it? He was also a polygamist. He married his second wife, my great-grandmother, when she was 21, and he was 53. She would have 10 children with him over the next 21 years, having a baby almost every other year. He had other children with his first wife too. Regardless of the disturbing situation in which it came ...