So much could be said about this post offering! First, I am continually amazed and grateful for your courage.
After that, yes - seems to me you are on the right track. Knowing our ancestors helps to allow us authenticity over and above standard American popular culture.
In my "Every Woman's Interdisciplinary Dance" workshop, I encouraged women to connect with their female ancestors and with women past, present and future through dance. Watching transformations was most gratifying!
For much of my life, at least while my father was alive, I was told my paternal blood was Irish. For some reason it never seemed to fit - it felt false - so I downplayed it in favor of the old German farm heritage in which I was raised. It wasn't until I found some old papers and did a little research to learn I'm actually half Scot.
Ahhh! THAT fit.
I no longer felt like a fraud. I learned from where my paternal family originated and immediately felt authenticity. Cellular memory, I guess eh?
So much could be said about this post offering! First, I am continually amazed and grateful for your courage.
After that, yes - seems to me you are on the right track. Knowing our ancestors helps to allow us authenticity over and above standard American popular culture.
In my "Every Woman's Interdisciplinary Dance" workshop, I encouraged women to connect with their female ancestors and with women past, present and future through dance. Watching transformations was most gratifying!
For much of my life, at least while my father was alive, I was told my paternal blood was Irish. For some reason it never seemed to fit - it felt false - so I downplayed it in favor of the old German farm heritage in which I was raised. It wasn't until I found some old papers and did a little research to learn I'm actually half Scot.
Ahhh! THAT fit.
I no longer felt like a fraud. I learned from where my paternal family originated and immediately felt authenticity. Cellular memory, I guess eh?