Our family keeps having the same arguments about traditions and which ones to keep, and I realize we're basically relitigating decisions our grandparents made without ever talking about what those choices cost them or us. My siblings and I all have different relationships to our cultural heritage and every holiday becomes this minefield of unspoken expectations and inherited obligations.
More people experience this than they realize.
A family is trying to consciously choose their inheritance rather than simply repeat or reject it wholesale.
“Where Are You with Ancestral time — how the past lives in us?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.