Robert Farmer:  

Life I was born on a farm in Eastern Ohio; my earliest memory of my place in this world was at five years and it was looking at the sky.....wondering why I was here and what my place was in the relation to my environment. I attended a rural school and had a good relationship with my classmates and neighbors. This is mostly because I was unaware (for the most part) of the social (mostly racial) conditions of my time. Race was not everything or most things, but was part of everything that happened. I had two teachers at Georges Run School who were extremely dedicated to teaching and I was an apt pupil, even though the system was not dedicated to my advancement. I loved my classmates and neighborhood! High school was a shock. It was the first time that I had been around other African American students and I no longer knew my place and felt that I was in a hostile environment....still, I felt that if others got to know me, everything would be all right. In some ways it wasn't, and in some ways it was. Since then, I have been many things, had many jobs, traveled many places, and explored many worlds. Now at 67 years, I have now found my place in this world, but wonder where my place is in the Universe? Where my place is in Eternity? and what the purpose of all this was. .....not much different from my thoughts at five years! The world is so much larger today than it was yesterday. Things became clearer when I found that in Life, the journey is important: not the destination, people may have all the a...Expand for more