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Where Is She Now?
North Carolina
Who’s Your Mama? Roots and Chosen Lineage
This is a photo of my hometown. It was founded in 759 AD (seriously – doesn’t that just blow you away?). This image includes the sole remaining city gate, built in the 14th century.
My family left here when I was just a baby (much later than 759!), so I don’t remember it as a hometown. All my memories of these roots have come from visits.
The legacy of this place is much more than that of a rather elderly European city. It holds the roots of my childhood, which was spent in North America.
As I visited here, I was reminded of my lineage. And not just because my aunt, my mother’s sister, not only looks like my mother, but has the same mannerisms and idioms of speech, even though they haven’t lived on the same continent for over 50 years. It’s a bit freaky! In momentary lapses of concentration, I would forget it was my aunt who was speaking and hear my mother. Other family members say they’ve had the same experience.
We all have a lineage by birth. All our relatives, our ancestors, form the lineage of blood. These people first showed us how to be in the world, have been our teachers.
We also have a chosen lineage. Depending on what you have chosen to focus on in your life, you have a lineage of teachers on your own path.
This lineage is of your own choosing.
Your chosen teachers have helped you to know what you wish to know about a different way of life, about a line of work, about other ways of being in the world than your previous experience, your birth lineage, was able to show you.
We are all expanded by our chosen lineage.
Let it be a conscious choice.
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