I have um. Thank you and peace be with you. Theres three mikes here so i dont know if i should put this down. Um. Before i start, ive had the great honor to i love to talk at schools. K through graduate school and one question i ask children in america is i ask them how many of you have talked great detail to your grandparents or elders or fore fathers about world war ii or the depression or vietnam or civil rights movement, or perhaps if your parents or grandparents came from another country and settled here what its like. Only five to ten percent of the ands come up. If i asked that same question in afghanistan or pakistan or africa 90 of ands come up and i think the as great tragedy weve lost that oral tradition and a rich tradition about folklore and heritage and faith and heritage. To honor that today id like to share with you a little story. Its a hard cover book that came out in march of 2006. Anybody have a hard cover. Wave it up here. You might not want it after i say this. I
I have um. Thank you and peace be with you. Theres three mikes here so i dont know if i should put this down. Um. Before i start, ive had the great honor to i love to talk at schools. K through graduate school and one question i ask children in america is i ask them how many of you have talked great detail to your grandparents or elders or fore fathers about world war ii or the depression or vietnam or civil rights movement, or perhaps if your parents or grandparents came from another country and settled here what its like. Only five to ten percent of the ands come up. If i asked that same question in afghanistan or pakistan or africa 90 of ands come up and i think the as great tragedy weve lost that oral tradition and a rich tradition about folklore and heritage and faith and heritage. To honor that today id like to share with you a little story. Its a hard cover book that came out in march of 2006. Anybody have a hard cover. Wave it up here. You might not want it after i say this. I
Thank you. Thank you. I have um. Thank you and peace be with you. Theres three mikes here so i dont know if i should put this down. Um. Before i start, ive had the great honor to i love to talk at schools. K through graduate school and one question i ask children in america is i ask them how many of you have talked great detail to your grandparents or elders or fore fathers about world war ii or the depression or vietnam or civil rights movement, or perhaps if your parents or grandparents came from another country and settled here what its like. Only five to ten percent of the ands come up. If i asked that same question in afghanistan or pakistan or africa 90 of ands come up and i think the as great tragedy weve lost that oral tradition and a rich tradition about folklore and heritage and faith and heritage. To honor that today id like to share with you a little story. Its a hard cover book that came out in march of 2006. Anybody have a hard cover. Wave it up here. You might not want i
And it would be like that i had a small village in mind. There was a part in time i thought, i could go back to japan and go there and see how it looked. I had in the book and in my heart what i thought it was, i almost knew that if i had gone back it wouldnt be the same. So i made the conscious choice of not going. Now that you tell me this im thankful i didnt i think it would have destroyed what i created in my head. I thought places are best when they are imagined. I hesitated naming it after a place where my mom said what did exist. Im glad i didnt go back. Making that conscious choice would have changed had i gone back would have changed the direction of the book a lot. When i saw it it was so different than how an imagined from reading your books. Does that teach you never to look up things. Always listen to the writer . [laughter]. We have time for one more question. Cant be our essay question. She didnt give us a question yet. I wanted to know what made you think of the title l