Autobiography - The Galindo Group

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Ram Galindo THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN Page 184 describe above, I hope you will support them. If they don’t, I hope you take-up the banner to fight for the liberation of the human spirit as we have repeatedly done throughout the history of our family. ` This vault, which has been filled with invaluable data compiled under the direction of my daughter Lis, is in itself part of my inheritance to you. It contains information about some of the great people with whom I had the good fortune to cross paths after my arrival to Texas. I have asked them to describe their own families, summarize their accomplishments, and to provide the names of their children and grandchildren, if any. My wish is that you attempt to locate their heirs and re-establish a friendly connection. I hope it will be an enjoyable and perhaps convenient opportunity for all. I truly admired and valued their ancestors. I close by re-stating my unlimited love and respect for my parents, from whom I received all the tools needed to pursue a happy life, and for my children and grandchildren, for whom I worked to endow with the same tools I was given. At the time I write this letter only my daughter Lis has given me the greatest gift she could. She and her husband Ricky have truly enriched my life for one more generation by bringing Miana and Cassy Soto to my world. I am still hopeful that descendants from Cid and Kim will be among those reading this letter. In the down slope of my life I married Susan Scoggins. We had no children but she gave me instead a second round of all the good things of “la Casa de Aranjuez”, filling a great void in my life and leaving her imprint as the matriarch of my generation. I hope this message will reach you through the space of more than 100 years, and will transmit effectively the lasting fire of my love for all of you. I hope you can feel the strength of my good wishes that all of you live to be the best you can be. I am the founding father of the Texas Galindo family. I bless all of you. Autobiography.doc 184 of 239 Ram A. Galindo
Ram Galindo THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN Page 185 ---044--- ADVENTURE In reviewing the traits that we learn in the cradle of our homes, it appears to me that our quest to explore is among the most important. Any exploration of the unknown quickly takes the tone of adventure. Even learning is some sort of adventure. One can experience the thrill of discovery by learning from a book, by experimenting, or even more exciting, by just plain reasoning. This trait of exploring, of looking at life as a trip of discovery, I learned at my parents’ home and taught to my children in my own home. Therefore I integrate my taste for adventure with my family life, whether as child growing up in my parents’ home or as a father teaching my own children the basics of life. Thus, I see adventure as an integral part of growing up and of honing us to be the best that we can be. Accepting adventure allows us to enjoy life more, to appreciate the society that makes it possible for us to do so and to become more accomplished citizens. I perceive the taste for exploration and adventure as a lesson to be learned at home. One of the benefits of liberty is the power that each individual receives to seek and explore beyond what is generally considered an established limit. Just as surely as each one of us has dreamed of self-improvement, each of us has also dreamed of pushing the envelope of what we have already accomplished. I find that the desire to seek and explore blossoms under the encouraging light of political and economic freedom. My observation is that when one is free to decide where and when to go, how to spend his or her own resources and what and how to explore, another mandate shrouded in the genome is released with great power. People call it our “natural” curiosity to explore. Akin to our desire to create to improve ourselves, this is a desire to learn more, to overcome the fears caused by ignorance, to find out what our personal and group limits are, to look beyond the confinement of the allegoric range of mountains behind which each one of us lives. This impulse to explore cannot prosper without liberty. The genius of America unleashes this impulse in all its citizens for the benefit of the world. While some truly creative people feel this impulse with great clarity and have the talent and perseverance to move all of humanity up the pyramid of progress, most of us are only able to push our own limits, be they intellectual, physical or willpower. The discovery of my own desires to explore new territories started in the realm of physical activities. But I soon found out that even to develop muscles and motor skills it was first necessary to develop willpower, and willpower cannot be developed in the absence of intellectual concentration. The inner strength needed to set goals and persevere in their search is the main ingredient of what we call a strong spirit. Autobiography.doc 185 of 239
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