03/03/2026
Honouring my Lineage 🙏
The beautiful woman in the picture above is my paternal grandmother. Time shared in this lifetime was brief but profound. She passed when I was 15, but the first 11 years of my life, she was on the other side of the planet. She was in the UK, and we were in Southern Africa.
Our time together was reserved for holidays, but she had a truly profound impact on my life. She was the most incredible, loving, compassionate person I have ever known. The depth of our soul connection is still something I cannot express in words. I have felt her with me every day of my life in the nearly 4 decades since she passed. She has walked every step with me and I am so honoured and blessed to have had her as my greatest cheerleader in this life.
She did not have an easy life. She was incredibly intelligent but force to leave school at about 13 to start working to help suppprt the family. She was so gifted musically, playing the piano (able to play a song meerly from hearing it once), she had the voice of an angel when she sang, and her knitting, sewing and seamstress skills were incredible. The list goes on. Despite life's challenges, she remained loving, kind, generous, and compassionate. She has been my greatest role model in this life, as to how I choose to show up each day.
She and I are proof that ancestral trauma really is carried in the DNA. Many of the emotional and relationship struggles she faced, turned out to be mine too. Only this time, with her by my side, wrapping her unconditonal love around me, I have broken many of those cycles. She stayed in a marriage that held a lot of darkness, but when my marriage reached darkness that almost broke me, I chose to walk away. She held me with so much love when the tears flowed and the pain and sadness seemed unending and overwhelming. She was my compass when I realised I had lost myself in the darkness. She was my light, shining brightly, my anchor, my constant reminder to choose love, hope, compassion, kindness and not get lost in the darkness, the anger, the betrayal, the pain and the resentment. Cont. in the comments 🙏
