Ralph Waldo Emerson said: “For everything you have missed, you have gained something else.” I love this quote and imagine this idea synonymous with my mother’s favorite saying, “Bloom where you’re planted.” This has become her token saying and usual answer to my constant query: “How will I know if I am following the perfect path for me?”
I guess I’ve often wondered why, if I could live anywhere in the world (London, Singapore, Manhattan) I continue to have a romance with my small upstate hometown? The answer, after contemplating both motherly and transcendental wisdom, is simple: it holds me at the roots.
No, I don’t believe that it’s necessarily your bloodline that forms your roots. Nor do I believe that it’s a particular “place” or community. It is a place in your heart that speaks to you, and when you are there you know you’re home.
In my case, it is my genealogy I think of, however. Simply stated: It’s the reason I stand where I am, right now. To be here, my great-grandmother lived for days in the bottom of a rickety old wooden boat. She left behind her...
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