intergenerational tapestry
We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out their oxidative dictates; we begin as a microscopic electrical swarm. The lungs the brain the heart. Forty weeks la
... See moreAnthony Doerr • All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
"I think one more thing I'll talk about, as far as a medicine for us is what I call our deep time ancestral inheritance. In a culture again, here in this country where our only focus is on the future and on progress, we forget that we are the inheritors of this enormous reservoir of wisdom. We survive. We're here today because of survival, of a cap
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A human life is nothing in itself; it is part of a family tree. We are continuously living the ancestral life, reaching back for centuries, we are satisfying the appetites of unknown ancestors, nursing instincts which we think are our own, but which are quite incompatible with our character; we are not living our own lives, we are paying the debts
... See moreSandra Easter • Jung and the Ancestors: Beyond Biography, Mending the Ancestral Web
But such memories are woven from gossamer threads; time eats holes in the fabric, and these she must darn with myth and fable.
Abraham Verghese • The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club)
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