In this episode I reflect on my early reluctance in tracing my roots and the power of dreams. To having a role in mapping out over 200 years of my Family History, becoming a Genealogist and the "Ancestor Whisper" all while receiving love and disaffection juxtaposed with losing myself in a corporate space, it was through understanding the heroism and sacrifice that allowed me and my Family to persevere that I fully began to accept the role that I was told I had to play.  History repeats... especially in Families. 

On Episode 13 ... A reader asked about my pause between episodes (mid season break, no?) So I'm back and reflecting on serial acts of inhumanity juxtaposed against serial acts of goodness, wondering if we are better than the "headlines". As I dig in the crates from some essays from 2017 and 2019 via www.shunpwrites.com with a bonus reading of some new work.

In this installment I reflect on the lessons gifted to me by way of my Father and how those echoes of purpose guided my steps... and I drag an old foe through the confines of prose as the capstone to the episode.

In part two of my reflection on my efforts to trace the winding roots of my family tree - I reflect on the power of dreams and my visit to the seat of over two centuries of family history.