Monthly Archives: December 2006

The Beginning: Meeting of the Two Branches

Image is taken from a detail of the Sistine Chapel.

In a personal search for cultural values, that I have estimated had seriously started when I was a child of eight years old, the dig and prodding of my grandmother was just the beginning. Throughout the years oral accounts that I had simply classified as interesting stories, though some were tragic accounts of the life of family members, turned out to be just traces of what I was to understand was just some of the accounts that would make up the history of my people. Continue reading