archeological digs

[mariecstasy]

in order to piece together history man has taken on these digs. but how often, in order to figure ourselves out, do we dig into our own roots? or is the emotion attached to our past and malfunctions too much to bare?

[nirgal]

A poem by an unknown author......

Back Bearings

Hyannis is a sailors' harbor with a church spire
To guide the tired navigator home from the old channel
East of Egg Island, home past the Fiddlehead
And home behind the shoals off Harbor Bluff.

But I am rowing through life, looking back to find my way
And the spire guides me south south east
Away from the home and hazards of shore
To the simpler hazards and home of sea.

Rowing is the art of back bearings,
Of the past as guide through where we've been before
And a straight course to the unknown.

If we're to keep the stroke, our glimpses ahead
Are but brief saturations
Of our sensitive peripheral sight of indirection

[~Sam~]

Geez Marie! I've been digging into my past, both ancestral and reincarnate for a long time.

My Roots lie in Eastern Europe... Magyar & Lithuanian, both coming from western Siberia in ages past. I don't know about the pain attached in doing so, but I Do know that my heritage explains a lot about the ways I am. Magyars, or Hungarians, are purported to have come to earth from mars... it's quite a story. Maybe I'll tell it in my forum.... I love to talk about the Magyars, but everytime I get involved with my mother's side... my father (he's crossed over) pushes his picture over. I've even taped it to the shelf... still... I mention or investigate the Magyars and Boom! there goes the picture again. Well, not too much is written about the Lithuanians, Dad.

Thanks for thinking things like this, Marie.

[HoneySuckleBlue]

If you recall each single moment, each feeling and each dream you ever had...then you find the unanswered questions that need to be lived again, drawing you as they draw you right now. You transform and then come back to complete your Self step by step...

~unknown

It does'nt matter who my ancestors were, does knowing their stories make any real difference? We are who we are...no?


(Sam yours was the first font style I've really dug!! It goes so nice with your avatar...so wild so free...)

[paintedjames]

this IS a complex issue!

oh, why Kim, i love that quote of the unknown author....those words were meant for me to read at that exact moment in time...
and let's remember, just for the sake of balancing the thought out,
"it's impossible, to go living through the past, don't tell no lie"-bob marley