responsibility to past and future generations?

 

so many interactions

did I adequately learn from Daddy 

how to live my life well?

each of our kids have found their own paths

to move forward with family, and with work,

and we are blessed with three grandchildren

who seem to be not obsessed with looking back,

and instead they are looking forward,

we hope to help them to ground themselves

with our gifts of lineage, and appreciation,

so that who they are now,

is consonant with those who came before,

yet the past is at best catalyst

to allow the genesis

of those who the universe has created

with their own perspectives

to forcefully interact with the world they inhabit,

and with the world each seeks to make,

as catalyst, we are not involved,

save as enablers,

our influence not clear, except in our hopes,

we love the idea of continuation,

that the past still lives in present and future,

each new person deserves applause

for what each does with their own lives,

the chain forges new links,

and continues on into indefinite future.

by Henry H. Walker

February 26, ‘26