Our ancestors live on in our bones, in our blood, in our DNA. We are living, evolving memorials to those who came before and whether we have children or not, we will each of us become ancestors in our own right. The legacy we leave? The world and the effects of our choices and actions.
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There is something elemental and almost frightening about the full potential of our impact. Just as there is something elemental and frightening about how utterly insignificant we are. Everything we do matters AND we are one piece of a Whole so immense we can’t even begin to comprehend.
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Whether you can trace your ancestors or not, know that there is beauty they have left you... and there is mess. They couldn’t clean it up in their time. Perhaps we can in ours. To do this, we must be willing to look into the shadows, to plum our inner-landscapes for topographical clues, to wait for flashes of insight and to then trust what we find there. To evolve the beauty we will leave behind. To leave less mess.
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What kind of world are your actions on a trajectory to leave? What do you feel in your bones is yours to illuminate? What gifts pump through your veins? What wounds drift in your currents, waiting to be held? Know that these are unique to you, and also something you have inherited. How will you steward them? When the time comes to pass them on, what will you have evolved them into?
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This is the realm of symbolism, of imagination, of potential energy. We stand on their shoulders. We aim higher.
July 27, 2020