200604 kaleidoscope

may 11 2020


  i am my parents' child. of course, but look: every day my every action reflects something learned from them, a reminder of them.
sometimes their presence is tangible, like seeing the kaleidoscope of human history, ancestry: like the seers of dune, or the shamans of ayla's tribe, (on drugs, both of them), i'm aware of my mother and father at my shoulder, their three-dimensional legacy of knowledge, skill and experience and my father's and mother's parents before them. how the wisdom tumbles down the generations like a waterfall, like stones into the path,  like a glacier.

dune, frank herbert
the clan of the cave bear, jean aeul