#ancestory

[shrimplyghostie]

Destined

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And that's a wrap baby! Thank you for reading this hot mess, I'm just glad to be done with it - I was working on it since January and it sure was a learning experience :,) If you got any questions about the comic or these two idiots shoot my inbox

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Photograph: Tacitus Dean

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"I have often wondered if the sadness that haunts me is not my own, but something that has been passed down through generations, an inheritance of sorrow that I carry with me. It is a sadness that I cannot fully understand, a sense of loss that I cannot explain. It is as if I am mourning something that was taken from me long before I was born, a grief that has been passed down through the ages, from parent to child, until it has become a part of me, woven into the very fabric of my being."

W.G. Sebald

Photograph: Tacitus Dean

(Center of Applied Jungian Studies)

[crazycatsiren]

"But when the fruit trees of the valley all turned ripe and red, they still had not found anyone willing to take their baby. Ahnigen's wife gave birth to the loveliest little girl. She was simply adorable, with her large black eyes, thick eyebrows, high nose, and tiny pink mouth. Her parents could not bear to part with her. They decided to ditch their plan of giving her up, and kept her. They named her Red Berry, after the berries on the fruit trees that had completely ripened at the time of her birth."

(Translated excerpt from my grandmother's book, from chapter 1: the early life of her mother's grandmother.)

I'm still at the very beginning of this project, and it has already brought me to tears plenty. These women, whose names would never appear in history books, whose lives would never be studied by historians, they deserve to not be forgotten. Their stories deserve to be told. Everything they had gone through should not simply be lost to time and erased from history forever.

I will not let them just disappear.

[thebooksareeverywhere]

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

[momentsinreading]

"How is it my responsibility, or even my place, to apologize for the actions of my ancestors? Because they did it in my name. They did it for the prosperity of their descendants. But I don’t want any benefits conferred through slavery. I know it’s impossible for me to shed every single advantage that my ancestry affords me, but the least I could do is examine it. Be critical of it, to be as proactive as possible when it comes to the whole ‘not being complicit in historical atrocities’ thing. As a person of considerable privilege, I consider it my responsibility because my privilege will try to make me complicit by default.” -Cold Crash Pictures

[ancestralvoices]

'May the Ancestors shine a light on your path today' Have an uplifting day family!! #ancestors #ancestorsoverreligion #ancestor #ancestoraltar #ancestorveneration #ancestorworship #iammyancestors #ancestory #myancestors #shine #shinebright #shineyourlight #shinebrightlikeadiamond #shinee #shinedown #shineememes #shinesupply https://www.instagram.com/p/B-KdKbxjawp/?igshid=1k1yxgthmwv9u

[moonlights-breath]

I wish my ancestors would appear to me in a great big spiritual cloud in the sky Lion King style and just tell me what they want from me.

They make me so tired.💔

[dbaydenny]

Legacy

I should speak some Welsh

for a moment connecting

to an ancestry

lost to migration, culture

once a legacy

that had every memory

stripped and peeled just to fit in.

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D W Eldred