Four Thousand and Ninety-Six: Notes on Inheritance and Responsibility
The perpetuation of greed, war, domination, and trauma will be the end of us. By ACL Bachara We did not arrive here alone. We have never been alone. We did not arrive here innocent, and we do not get to pretend we are self-made. We inherit thousands of ancestors—and their responsibility—simply by being born onto this earth. We must decide what kind of ancestors we are going to be. When I started tracing the lines of my ancestry, I thought I was looking backward. I didn’t expect my deep ancestral exploration to change the way I see the present. My […]
