I really enjoyed reading this Raechel. I loved your reflections on the value of stories. I’m thinking about our human root systems/networks and how our lineage is often reduced to 2 dimensional DNA/scientific or ‘birth, deaths and marriages’ family trees/genealogy when it’s all of the often undocumented, untold and hidden oral histories, the in between disorderly chaos of our lives that provide the most potent understandings.
I really enjoyed reading this Raechel. I loved your reflections on the value of stories. I’m thinking about our human root systems/networks and how our lineage is often reduced to 2 dimensional DNA/scientific or ‘birth, deaths and marriages’ family trees/genealogy when it’s all of the often undocumented, untold and hidden oral histories, the in between disorderly chaos of our lives that provide the most potent understandings.