Entering Into & Considering Our Past

“I don’t, properly speaking, have a past that is available to  me, a past I can enter into and consider; and I grieve for that lack.” *

All our efforts to collect family stories and information are connected to making sure we do have our past so we can enter into it and consider it.  Looking back can be  fun, interesting, instructive, and so much more. Knowing our past can help us as we move into the future. 

*V. S. Naipaul; quoted in “Man Without a Country: V.S. Naipaul and the Artistic Rewards of Statelessness” by Joseph O’Neill; The Atlantic, September 2011; page 101

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