Bagels? Huh? What’s that? Lox? Oh sure, you can get locks at the hardware store.
Louis area yelled epithets at us, things like “Go home, dirty Jew.” Imagine when a few of us in 1963 went to a store in Nebraska to buy breakfast and wanted bagels and lox. It was the first time I experienced anti-Semitism when some locals in the St. Imagine what that was like for a NY kid to experience this great and vast country for the first time. I had never left NY except for a quick school trip to Washington DC, or to nearby states to visit relatives. Forty 15-year olds traveling by bus, camping around the country. In addition to having just started high school, as most of us did around that age, that summer I had the opportunity to travel around the country with a camp.
If I were to ask you what was going on in your life, within your immediate environment, or in the world you were experiencing at 14 or 15, there’s a good chance that period will have been significant to you and will have remained a driving force in your life. Call it even the beginning of our philosophy of life. And we often start developing our outlook on life.
But something happens when we get to 14 or 15. Up until then, the world is all about just ourselves. The theory is, “What you are now is where you were when.” And the “when” is around the time we reach those wonderful, early teen years, age 14 or 15. There’s a wonderful theory from Morris Massey that help us understand who we are and who we’ve become.
