Leaving Before the Rains Come
“We think of ourselves as individual dammed rivers, the blood of generations stopped up in our veins, the accumulated habits of a lifetime ceasing at the border of our skins. We don’t think of our present, our current conditions, and our immediate decisions as incurable infections or persisting gifts that will cross through the porous vectors of inheritance and time and blossom into the future. In spite of biblically ancient warnings, we don’t think of our choices—our decision to wake up each mo...rning and be free, or remain in the thrall of some visible or invisible jail, for example—as contaminating or blessing not only ourselves but also our children, their children unto the third and to the fourth generations.
But here I was. Look back into the double mirror images of my history, past my mother to my grandmothers, and to their mothers before them, and regardless of their true talents and ambitions, the women whose blood rushed directly into mine were basically glorified housekeepers, their fates inextricably tied to the men they married.MoreLess
But here I was. Look back into the double mirror images of my history, past my mother to my grandmothers, and to their mothers before them, and regardless of their true talents and ambitions, the women whose blood rushed directly into mine were basically glorified housekeepers, their fates inextricably tied to the men they married.MoreLess
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