{"id":162947,"date":"2020-06-29T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=162947"},"modified":"2020-06-18T09:31:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T08:31:00","slug":"family-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/06\/family-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"

A daughter observed her mother prepare a Christmas ham. Before she put it in a pot in the oven, she cut off a piece on the left and right and threw them into the garbage. The daughter asked her mother why she did this. “My mother has always done it that way,”<\/em> was her reply.<\/p>\n

They were curious and went to see Grandma and asked her why she always cut off a piece of ham on the left and right before putting it in the oven. Her reply was the same, “Because my mother has always done it that way.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Great-Grandma, over 90, was still alive in a retirement home. They visited her and asked her, “Why did you always cut off a piece of ham on the left and right before putting it in the oven?”<\/em> She explained, “Because my pot was too small!”<\/em><\/p>\n

We often follow traditions, even if they are no longer appropriate, having forgotten why.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/em>Dietrich Fischer (1941-2015) from M\u00fcnsingen, Switzerland, got a Licentiate in Mathematics from the University of Bern 1968 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University 1976. Fischer was a MacArthur Fellow in International Peace and Security at Princeton University 1986-88, has taught mathematics, computer science, economics and peace studies at various universities, and been a consultant to the United Nations. He was co-founder, with Johan Galtung, of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a> in 1993<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Excerpted from Dietrich Fischer’s <\/em>Stories to Inspire You<\/a> – TRANSCEND University Press-TUP<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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