Wearing green today my way. I don’t really celebrate the institution that starved, manipulated, and beat the traditions out of my Irish ancestors; instead I choose to think of my ancestors themselves.
I think about the land that nurtured the people who proceeded me. I grieve the culture that was not passed down to us as it should have been. I delight in their blood that flows through my veins. I wonder at the books where I can learn more about old traditions and reclaim what I can with gratitude. I sing because of their old voices ringing in my synapses. I hope to live up to and surpass their wildest dreams. I strive to create beauty with pictures and words in honor of them. I fight to make the world a bit more free because they did too. I learn because there’s nothing worse than when the oppressed become the oppressors. I try to be brave because I know that they were, or I wouldn’t be here. I grow because with every bloodline comes baggage that it’s our duty to heal so that the next generations baggage can be lessened. I hold on to the best of what they gave me and heal what doesn’t serve me and because I hope that someday I will be a good ancestor as well.
Happy Irish/Celtic Heritage Day!
May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back!
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