Thanks for thoughtful post full of emotion and love. Its so important to know who we are and where we come from. I love this sentence at the end: "Each of us is born with our ancestors’ stories quite literally encoded into our DNA, and born too into cultures and institutions and nations that are nothing more or less than living incarnations of past events and processes." Cycles within cycles that somehow we have to break.
Yes -- the stories are so old and yet they're also still alive in us and our institutions. That's where the hope is, I think -- because that's something we can do something about.
Thanks for thoughtful post full of emotion and love. Its so important to know who we are and where we come from. I love this sentence at the end: "Each of us is born with our ancestors’ stories quite literally encoded into our DNA, and born too into cultures and institutions and nations that are nothing more or less than living incarnations of past events and processes." Cycles within cycles that somehow we have to break.
Yes -- the stories are so old and yet they're also still alive in us and our institutions. That's where the hope is, I think -- because that's something we can do something about.
Truth be told