Friday, January 21, 2011

So how do we differ from our foremothers and fathers?

David Whyte reminds us that we do nothing but from the shoulders of those who have gone before us.
Wheat was the legacy you received from your father? your mother?
A legacy can be helpful or hindering, depending upon the stage, age, context of your life now, their life then. (Define "then.")


  • Get clear on their circumstances ... family, gender, the age, the stage, the times, culture, role, fit.  
  • What was the status quo?
  • To what extent and in what ways did they go with the flow? swim against the current? swim upstream?
  • What behaviors/predispositions did they model for you? bequeath to you? Which was a Trojan Horse? Which an albatross? Which a gift in the rough?

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