The Family Scribe
In each & every family there is at least one ... and we who are called to be the storytellers of our tribe, it as if we are driven as it were by our genes to find the ancestors ... This search, it goes far beyond a simple gathering of facts ... it goes to who we are & why we do the things we do & it seems that in finding them we somehow find ourselves ... It is breathing life back into all who have gone before ... for they laughed & they cried & they lived & they died. And it is as if they cry out to us to tell their story, to put flesh on their bones & to make them live again -- to tell the family story & to feel that somehow,they know & approve ...
	This search, it goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds & indifference & knowing we can't let this happen because the bones here -- they are bones of our bone & flesh of our flesh -- & it goes to doing something about it ...
It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish & how they contributed to what & where we are today ... It goes to respecting their sacrifices & their hardships & losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on & to build a life for their family, both then & now ... It goes to a deep & immense understanding that they were doing it for us that we might be born who we are & that we might remember them ... And so we strive to preserve with love & caring, & with scribing, each fact of their existence ... Because we are them & they are us & so, as a scribe called, we tell the story of our family ... And it is up to that one who shall be called in the next generation to answer the call & to take their place in our long line of family storytellers and to continue the search for those who now reside in the land of rememberings ...