Dear Caminoheads,
That phrase (or something like that) if I am not recalling wrongly, is from the writer William Faulkner. I once read that it was one of the phrases that had the most interpretations. Once says that we cannot run away from the past or our ancestry, not just because of genetics, but also because there is something larger than it that you can call it epigenetic or influence, or culture if you would like.
To exemplify, let me use a personal fact: I mentioned already that I have had “3” fathers. One of them is my blood father (yes, I don’t come from a cabbage, it seems!) and while I lived with my blood father only until I was 5 and afterwards spent only occasional moments with him at the time your parent’s influence you, somehow I inherited not only his passion for music and literature, but also his same choices…
Yesterday, with the ancestry and historical research that Richard provided to us, we could somehow confirm that “the past (the ancestry)” of Phil Volker “is not the past”, because at the present time, he couldn’t run away from it anymore and accept that he is a General himself, recreating his own ancestry… He may have tried to convince us that “this is all in my head” but the reality is that it is not… It is in his genes and his epigenetic too… You may think that I am “making up” all if this, just because one of yesterday’s paintings shown a Volker General wearing a red baseball cap like the one our Phil Volker wears, but it is not… It seems that since Phil “acknowledged his past”, he has started mastering strategies, exactly as his ancestors in the WWII… all in the same Volker’s way… somehow old-fashion, all handwritten, but most importantly very practical. Look again at the picture… it doesn’t allow me to lie.
Tie-Back Loves,
Cris
*Tie-Back is a way to end a story, where the ending connects to some odd or offbeat element earlier in the story (according to Poynter Institute).
Good one!!
It’s interesting how all the battles of the past become history and the terrible things that happened don’t have meaning today other than as lines in history books.I was reading about Gary Powers and his U2 spy plane flight over the Russia and unintentional landing there!There was a move in the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet to have him executed for spying but 60 years later a life lost for secrets everyone knows now.Luckily for him is value as a prisoner swap was far greater to Kruschev.My own grandfather fought in the Battle of the Somme in 1916 and probably for nothing now but I suppose there’s a nice picture of the Kaiser shaking hands with the Allied leaders somewhere! Indeed against the onward movement of time and the vastness of space it’s all insignificant except for those who experience it.