How Do We Connect Our Pasts, Our Today and Our Future In a Tiny Little Package?
When we think about our Grandparents Great-Grandparents, do we know anything?
So your thinking, what I don't know won't hurt me. Maybe it can. There is something very deep and significant in knowing our bloodline. Knowing where we came from and who we came from gives us a sense of validation and purpose.
There are over two million people on Ancestry.com. These are people who are yearning connection and longing to know a piece of their life that they have no clue about. Why is this? When my niece read a letter that was written about fifty years from my Great Aunt to my Mom, tears came to her eyes. She asked me if there were any more letters. There weren't. There was something incredibly amazing for her to know that her Great Great Aunt Josie from a farm in Speonk used to can tomatoes, single-handedly took care of a farm and never once left the 2-mile radius of where she lived.
To you, it may sound boring and could care less. To my nineteen-year-old niece, it was magical! Today, we all have the power to pass on our knowledge and educate the generations we may never get to meet. You can leave a thumbprint in history.
Think about this. The younger children of today don't know what the dial was for on telephones or how we connected to the wall when we spoke to a person, hours on end. They don't understand the sheer panic we felt when we couldn't find the TV Guide, "How will we know what's on TV tonite? Could they ever imagine the angst we felt when reading the tiny little fold up map in the car on a family road trip and then not being able to fold it back up the right way when we were done?
Generations change, cultures change and we all learn to move on with the times. Mostly things get better and easier. However, some of us like remembering what it was like to walk into a room where every person was not looking into that tiny little screen in their left hand.
It is what it is, we go with the flow. In my Newsletter this week, I show you how I can help you connect this missing link. Please read more... https://conta.cc/2GGYgXQ
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