<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">Ancestor’s Roots<b><o:p></o:p></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">Wind ripples the grass. The stalks bow in <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">unison forming ocean waves of green and gold<o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">You, too, bend and reach with threads, cords, <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">deep roots that ripple back through time <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">connecting you to your ancestors <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">maybe for millennia<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">You hold their suffering in your DNA, marrow,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">heart, dreams, in your failures, fights and flights<o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">You want to cut that cord. I know you do.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">You are afraid because you see them <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">on those waves of time, unmoored, floating away<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">The grandmothers and great grandfathers, all whom you <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">loved and those you never knew but want to love<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">In that loss you fear you will lose your way<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">Lose connection to your future<o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">Listen. What you cut is not their love nor wisdom<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">You cut the anchors<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">the stakes in the ground<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">All ways their fears have kept you frozen<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">with unknown dreads<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">Their unforgiveness like burrs in <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">every hug received<o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">Look. When you cut the tangles, the ancestors <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">can take flight<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">Your attachment were hooks to their heart<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">Freed now, they will help you remove <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">the tangles that keep you from your truest self<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">They can surround you with<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">Wings of love<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">They will free your children’s children<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">Backwards and forwards, seven generations<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">They will<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;">They promise<o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 22px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Sally Churgel</div></div></body></html>