The Power of Perspective
Power of perspective – Is this what drives me?
Earlier this week it was "To help people", innovation, progress ...and I can’t forget, retrospect.
But, maybe it’s actually gratitude, appreciation, or finding a way forward while inviting others to join me - after all, I've been through this before!...
In 2023 it seems that waters may get rough. However, I doubt they will top a few terrible stories I heard when no-one knew I was listening as a child.
My grandparents left [what was] Czechoslovakia in 1951, arriving penniless, at the Port of New York, USA with a suitcase and two young children.
They left family and friends to make a better life for my mom and uncle in America. There were no possessions left to abandon - making it easy to pack I suppose.
Eventually, they made their way to Milwaukee once my grandfather found work with Evinrude Motors. He boasted about his job with so much pride. A great North American Company founded by Ole Evinrude in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1907. A great two-stroke outboard motor, made in the USA by immigrant hands, that would later become those of a citizen.
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My grandmother worked nights and weekends to make ends meet, cleaning at Mitchell Lanes. This was on top of so much else, without the modern conveniences of today. She never complained, and I'm not sure she slept.
I learned to appreciate "having enough”, the value of living within your means, and feeling good after accomplishing what needed to be done spending time with her growing up.
I have so many amazing memories of my grandmother – her strength was awe inspiring.
[No KPIs today.]
Just a few thoughts and memories in honor my grandmother.
Acknowledging her to be one of most inspirational women anyone could have hoped to know - in celebration of courage during Women's History Month.
Maybe this is what drives me.
Our kids deserve the life she envisioned, let's refocus on the horizon - we've not lost our heading!
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2yIncreasingly I have been asked how easy it can be to find information online through the New York public library - it's quite user friendly! The top left photo is the real manifest from the ship my mom arrived on, landing in the US in the early 1950's. Class DP = Displaced Persons, that's so hard to envision quite honestly. I'm certainly thankful for the bravery of my grandparents and that they chose to grow new roots in Milwaukee after working through multiple steps of a prosess, a Great Place on a Great Lake is the motto I recall thinking fondly of as a child.