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This past weekend was my \u201cbirthday weekend.\u201d It was so nice! We did \u201cdinner and a movie.\u201d Somewhat due to my 15-year-old grandson Henry being one of the viewers, I chose the movie, \u201cBlinded by the Light.\u201d <\/span>Based on the memoir, \u201cGreetings from Bury Park,\u201d the book follows \u201cthe experience of Sarfraz Manzoor, a young Pakistani boy growing up in Britain in the 1970s. From the book jacket: Sarfraz was two years old when, in 1974, he emigrated from Pakistan to Britain with his mother,<\/span> brother, and sister. He spent his teenage years in a constant battle, trying to reconcile being both British and Muslim, trying to fit in at school and at home. <\/span>\u00a0Until he found \u201ceverything,\u201d everything he was feeling, in Bruce Springsteen\u2019s music, the music of the working class.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n My husband Donny, who was making dinner, wandered in and out. I mentioned that the movie would remind him of the experience of our grandparents, his from Lebanon (exclusively), mine, of a grandpa from Italy. They were \u201cforeigners.\u201d They were not considered \u201cwhite.\u201d Memories arose and were briefly spoken of. I loved it. It just \u201chappened\u201d and became a natural way for Henry to hear a little of our history in the context of the true story being shared in the movie.<\/span><\/p>\n This morning I looked for Springsteen on-line and discovered, belatedly, that there is a book made of conversations between him and President Obama, conversation, Springsteen writes, about<\/span> \u201c<\/span>who we are and who we want to become<\/span>.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n https:\/\/brucespringsteen.net\/news\/2021\/renegades-born-in-the-usa-2<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n From Springsteen\u2019s introduction to the book:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThere were serious conversations about the fate of the country, the fortune of its citizens, and the destructive, ugly, corrupt forces at play that would like to take it all down. <\/span>This is a time of vigilance when who we are is being seriously tested.<\/span><\/i> Hard conversations about who we are and who we want to become can perhaps serve as a small guiding map for some of our fellow citizens. . . . This is a time for serious consideration of who we want to be and what kind of country we will leave our children. Will we let slip through our hands the best of us or will we turn united to face the fire?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0\u201cWill we turn united to face the fire,\u201d reminded me of \u201cthe fire\u201d in \u201cMirari\u201d and now \u201cMemoria.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n President Obama wrote of \u201cLooking for a way to connect our own individual searches for meaning and truth and community with the larger story of America,\u201d and how we might tell a \u201cmore unifying story.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n