Genes and Jeans

I was trying to convince the kids to eat their freshly-picked garden tomatoes at lunch yesterday but to no avail.  Our discussion went from lycopene to cancer and then Melody (our family disease-a-phobe) asked how people got cancer.  We then talked about risk factors and genes. 

 

"You mean people have cancer in their genes?"  Melody asked.  "Does OUR family have cancer in OUR genes?" 

 

Five-year-old Roman, listening quietly to this conversation, suddenly had an astonished look on his face.  With bulging eyes and then relief he looked down at the jersey shorts he was wearing and then announced, "WHAT?  Our family has CANCER in our jeans????  I am NEVER wearing JEANS again!!!" 

 

And then everyone ate their tomatoes. 

Food For Thought

Brigham Young:
We had to pay our own schoolteachers, raise our own bread and earn

our own clothing, or go without; there was no other choice.

We did it then, and we are able to do the same to-day.

I want to enlist the sympathies of the ladies among the

Latter-day Saints, to see what we can do for ourselves with
regard to schooling our children.

Do not say you cannot school them, for you can...

I understand that the other night there was a school meeting in one
of the wards of this city, and a part there--a poor miserable
apostate--said, "We want a free school, and we want

to have the name of establishing the first free school in Utah."

To call a person a poor miserable apostate may seem

like a harsh word; but what shall we call a man
who talks about free schools and who would

have all the people taxed to support them, and yet would take

his rifle and threaten to shoot the man who had the

collection of the ordinary light taxes levied in this
Territory--taxes which are lighter than any levied in any

other portion of the country?

*(Journal of Discourses 16:19-20)*