I am still unfolding the many lessons of open education and family narratives, even as I work to construct a learning source to people that I love, and people that I don't know. I am both student and teacher at this point. I would like to continue to invite other voices into our family blog because we LISTEN to others and form our understandings based on our willingness to consider new things. I had to learn this skill as an Italian-American child who stayed behind in Detroit after White Flight. I saw how dangerous and nasty discrimination can be towards people. It harms the innocent. It discourages the honest. I hurts the people who love because love is the only strength that can be completely relied upon.
Has our family see gay relationships? Does a bear scratch its ass in the woods? We are just like everyone else in America. We are watching people break free from the channeled lives they were destined to follow, according to someone else's ideas and adopting their own. WE, as Americans, claim our own lives, our own rights to self-define, to self-express, and to self-respect. We claim our own lives and must, therefore, allow others to do the same. If not: HOMESCHOOL MINI-LESSON: Look up the word HYPOCRITE and 'think on it for a bit.' Open your mind by understanding that you cannot ask for something you are unwilling to give. Freedom to love, and to build a life with another, is America's non-interference with your pursuit of happiness. Tell your stories. Listen to other's stories. That's how we can move beyond our own thinking, and contemplate possibilities that open eyes may see, open hearts may carefully consider, and open minds may find understanding. Fear and Hate crush understanding.
This is someone's story, in a brief video-commercial, to demonstrate the humanity of humans. Tolerance and acceptance of differences are necessary if the world, or even just America, is trying to come together and teach its future how to remember and know what we have already learned. This SHOULD BE one of the lessons to pass on. Open Education will become incredibly weakened if the communion of knowlege continues to be held back by twisted, indiscriminate hate towards others that don't look like (or always act like) us. I support marriage equality. I support the next generation's right to self-define America AWAY from HISTORICALLY grounded HATE, fear, INTOLERANCE.
This makes my heart feel tender towards my LGBT family because I know you have to sacrifice your acceptance among many people to keep your prefered loves. The Sabatini family has no known member that holds any prejudice towards our LGBT family members, and therefore have already been taught by our own members to love and accept others as well. I am proud of my family's belief in love, unsundered. We love you. (Some of the spouses coming into the family had to spend time with us to learn the same tolerance we have as a family. They have all been successful.)
Happy Easter. If you celebrate this holiday, remember that LOVE for us is the reason for this day. Let us give love back and show Him we understand love. If you don't, please pray for it to be known to you. Love is Love is Love is Love is Love is Love is Love is Love.......
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