Lineage, Memory & Survival

 🌿 Lineage, Memory & Survival

When I was taking a Carving and Reconciliation course at Langara, some of the men laughed about dating when they were young — or “snagging” as they called it 😁😂.

They said sometimes you’d see someone you liked… and then your Aunty or Mom would step in:
👉 “That’s your cousin.”

💡 Those teachings were protection. They kept the family lines safe, and they carried wisdom about lineage and balance.

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💔 What Was Broken

But then came the F*CKING Residential Schools.
Family trees torn apart. Names stolen. Kinship systems shattered.

And not just here. Across history, humanity has seen:

• Cousins marrying unknowingly.
• Women forced into marriages.
• Slavery.
• Violence against women on a massive scale.

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🧬 What Sperm Carries

Every act of violence, every broken lineage, every trauma — it doesn’t vanish.
Science calls it epigenetics.
Elders call it memory.

It lives in the sperm.
It lives in the eggs.
It lives in us.

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🌟 The Miracle

And yet — here we are.
Alive. Breathing. Continuing.

We carry scars.
But we also carry resilience.

✨ We are proof that survival is stronger than destruction.

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💭 A Question for Today

What wisdom will we choose to pass forward?
What wounds will we choose to heal so the next generations don’t have to carry them?