Creating a Place of Origin in your own home...

Hello again!

Today I would like to share with you the following wise words which resonate deeply for me about some of the things which have always pulled on my heart and soul strings in relation to my family and Ancestral connections...

Also offering a suggestion for one of the ways which we can all bring a sense of our own Belonging into our own homes...

I hope that as I have, you will find a sense of comfort, recognition and understanding about what I think can be best described as our:

Holy Longing...

"Occasionally you meet someone who knew their great-great-grandmother, who wears the handmade, ceremonial clothes of her people, who still stewards the land and sings the songs of her ancestors. But most of us are not so rich. Most of us have been orphaned from our ancestral land, and with it, our people's history, including the songs, teaching stories and wisdom ways of our lineage. And we may find ourselves looking in on families who are more intact than our own with a kind of unassuageable grief. This ache for something deeply familiar, yet entirely unknown, is our longing for a home we've always-never-known."

~ An excerpt from the chapter 'Holy Longing' in Toko-pa Turner's wonderful book "Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home" which is a precious book that I return to again and again for her deep insight and wisdom. Copies are available on Amazon, other bookstores and also from her website here:
https://toko-pa.com/belonging-the-book-by-toko-pa/

Place of Origin...

Because most of us have been orphaned from our ancestral land and the ways of our people, we suffer with the restlessness and ache of not-belonging. Instead of trying to regain what has been lost, Martín Prechtel teaches that we must learn to live in the way our ancestors lived; in reverence and indebtedness to the Holy in Nature.
One such powerful practice is to create a place in your home where you know the origins of everything. Not just where a thing came from, but who made it and with what skills, and at what cost to its roots. This Place of Origin may be small and sparse at first, but you add to it over time and, when the young ones come up around you, you tell the stories that you’ve collected in the hopes that one day, where you stayed put becomes a place of Belonging again.

~ Toko-pa
https://toko-pa.com

Ancestral Honouring & Remembering altar at my own hearth
which is filled with memories and stories to share