"in some ways, we haven’t stopped fighting, though there has been an armistace."
I really appreciate the way you write about your dad. I think it's interesting what gets transmitted to us through lineage and all the ghosts that hitch a ride. If you looked at my dad he looked fucking Irish - red bearded blond blue eyed, but his family were ashamed of their lower class Irish-Catholic identity so it was all about the 1/4 French Canadian "DuBrul." But damn of my kids don't love those Irish folk songs transmitted through the Pogues, we sing them every night. We can hate where we're from but we're still carrying it somewhere, transmitting it somewhere else. How much of these things are in our control? We are often just vectors for larger forces and we may as well make peace with it. Thanks for the catch up. xo
Thank you for talking about time travel, mourning for/in our homeland, and creating in the gaps of our family tree & archives. I hope you find what you're looking for, I hope you can both close & break cycles waiting for you there, and I hope your trip is as easeful as possible.
"I think: sometimes the peace is found in, you got your freedom and you really did break the cycle of violence.
and the price of the ticket is, you may not have much or any biological family you’re in touch with.
sometimes the generation before you got so fucked up, the best case scenario is, you start a new line of the family tree. you’re the branch that broke off. " just wow. Thank you for this.
"in some ways, we haven’t stopped fighting, though there has been an armistace."
I really appreciate the way you write about your dad. I think it's interesting what gets transmitted to us through lineage and all the ghosts that hitch a ride. If you looked at my dad he looked fucking Irish - red bearded blond blue eyed, but his family were ashamed of their lower class Irish-Catholic identity so it was all about the 1/4 French Canadian "DuBrul." But damn of my kids don't love those Irish folk songs transmitted through the Pogues, we sing them every night. We can hate where we're from but we're still carrying it somewhere, transmitting it somewhere else. How much of these things are in our control? We are often just vectors for larger forces and we may as well make peace with it. Thanks for the catch up. xo
Thank you for talking about time travel, mourning for/in our homeland, and creating in the gaps of our family tree & archives. I hope you find what you're looking for, I hope you can both close & break cycles waiting for you there, and I hope your trip is as easeful as possible.
"I think: sometimes the peace is found in, you got your freedom and you really did break the cycle of violence.
and the price of the ticket is, you may not have much or any biological family you’re in touch with.
sometimes the generation before you got so fucked up, the best case scenario is, you start a new line of the family tree. you’re the branch that broke off. " just wow. Thank you for this.
“life is what death can’t kill” 😭
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