My eldest daughter is a force of nature. I remember an incident when we lived in Orangeville, using our own well and septic system. She, at 12 years of age, wrote a letter to Proctor and Gamble asking for the detailed contents of their detergent products.
She wanted to know what was going down our drains and via our septic system into our well. When the company responded telling her that they could not reveal their proprietary formula, she wrote back.
“Dear Mr. Proctor and Gamble, I am not going to let my parents buy any more of your products until you tell me exactly what is in that detergent.”
She has lived her life with that passion every day since. She is now a teacher with an international school system and has travelled with her husband from Korea to Qatar to China. Her children, my two young grandsons, have had the opportunity to learn and play on the world stage in academic, sporting and arts events. They are world wise children.
The world is going to need free-range and world-wise children working together to lead us into a brave new world. Learning is a lifelong journey. This too, is my legacy.
The way I see it.
I still have visions of my youngest daughter running around the backyard of a property I once owned North of Orangeville. I would lose sight of her once in a while, between climbing to the top of the red pines to the north of our house, or searching for elves in their undergrowth.
No response.
