heritage

It seems like the best escape games come from Japan for some reason. It makes me proud.

The past informs the present.

You gotta look backwards to go forwards.

Preserve the spirit of a __ost_ age, when time moved slower.

We travel to see beautiful places and to meet great souls.

Feature in God__ team of trainees and you will play for the winning team! This is your heritage that you will lay hands on the trophy!

A traditionalist__ values are gleaned from all that is good in the past.

Those with traditional sense will follow what their heart tells them is right.

Finally, we entered Chetaube County, my imaginary birthplace, where the names of the little winding roads and minuscule mountain communities never failed to inspire me: Yardscrabble, Big Log, Upper, Middle and Lower Pigsty, Chicken Scratch, Cooterville, Felchville, Dust Rag, Dough Bag, Uranus Ridge, Big Bottom, Hooter Holler, Quickskillet, Buck Wallow, Possum Strut ... We always say a picture speaks a thousand words, but isn__ the opposite equally true?

The main vehicle for nineteenth-century socialization was the leading textbook used in elementary school. They were so widely used that sections in them became part of the national language. Theodore Roosevelt, scion of an elite New York family, schooled by private tutors, had been raised on the same textbooks as the children of Ohio farmers, Chicago tradesman, and New England fishermen. If you want to know what constituted being a good American from the mid-nineteenth century to World War I, spend a few hours browsing through the sections in the McGuffey Readers.

Words contain the "souls" or minds of people in the past; as such, they tell the story of consciousness.

Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it.

Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self.

If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown.

My tongue was handed down to meby datus and katipuneros. The truth ismy mouth is a battlefield thatyou wouldn__ know how to fight in.

Part of me shall dwell in my daughter to call upon in times of need of course.

Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot.

Your ancestors are rooting for you.