Autobiography - The Galindo Group

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Ram Galindo THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN Page 154 might have to organize), medical and other professional services. I envision that the plaza formed by the two structures will be one of the most attractive developments in town. It will be a worthy addition to my neighborhood and to the whole community. I also envision a personally significant involvement in the bank that I want to attract to this future location. Keeping my nose to the grindstone in an effort to stage a reconstruction of my financial affairs consumes most of my time and energies, but I have not given up my habits of physical fitness and reading. In the company of my old friend and CPA, Stan Cloud, I continue to train for triathlons, marathons and other competitive events, often in the company of my wife Susan. The absence of a parent’s time-consuming duties to young children make it especially easy to revel in the joy of my grandchildren, inspiring me to recollections about family and filial love, the subject of the next chapter. Autobiography.doc 154 of 239
Ram Galindo THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN Page 155 CHAPTER 4 FAMILY ---041--- THE GRAND DESIGN Much as the cell is the basic unit of a living organism, family is the basic unit of a social organization. If the cells are healthy and vigorous, the body they form will also be healthy and vigorous. The more powerful, interlaced, redundant and capable the cells are, the more successful the organism they form will be. Likewise, America’s strength and success as a leading nation is based on the quality of the principles and virtues we display in our lives and pass on to our children at home. Our homes are the cells of America. Thus, it is critically important to our national success to be a nation of successful families. The virtues and mores, as well as the prejudices and fears that we display as adults, most often came to us in our formative years. The scale of values that we learned as children become the principles upon which we build our own understandings of the world as adults. Through an undeniable process of social evolution, each generation improves upon the teachings of the previous one. My life’s journey toward becoming an American indeed began in my family, perhaps longer than a thousand years before I was born. Casting light from an angle that illuminates the importance of family values to my identification with America, forced me to trace the origins of these values to their very beginnings. As I explored the historical and geopolitical origins of the “American Concept” and weaved my personal experience of the resulting social compact in the first three chapters of this book, I also must explore the biological and moral origins of why I became so identified with it. To understand the forces that produce family, I went to creation itself. I did this with a very broad stroke, but in the process I encountered many revealing nuances with which most of us will find affinity. From times immemorial humanity has built the pyramid of progress driven by one primordial, unrelenting force. This force flows from the mandate, called instinct, that all living things carry within to have and protect their progeny. It was imprinted at their most elemental level by still obscure bioelectric processes. The more advanced the life form, the more sophisticated the instinct becomes. Among humans this basic instinct is Autobiography.doc 155 of 239
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