Our ancestors, that is.
Model of home in settlement of Çatal Hüyük; (from Turkish çatal "fork" + höyük "tumulus") It is a tell (a mounded accretion resulting from long-term human settlement) of a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 5600 BC and flourished around 7000 BC, Turkey (Thanks Wikipedia)
See a post earlier about Archaeology, one of my interests!
It's interesting to see what has been made of clay, stone and bone. Fiber arts, even clothes of skins, unfortunately just don't survive through the ages.
The Columbus Hypocrisy (and all Western European explorers/invaders).
Justice is often difficult to find.
But just look at all your ancestors!
To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.
-Steven Brust, novelist (b. 23 Nov 1955)
Arundhati Roy once said, “There’s no voiceless, there’s only the deliberately silenced, you know, or the purposely unheard.”
Barb, great post and quotes! Take care, enjoy your day!
ReplyDeleteGood morning early bird Eileen. Hope you have a great Thursday!
Delete...I'm not able to go that far back.
ReplyDeleteMany of mine don’t have names, but your’d better believe they once existed!
DeleteI too am a fan of Archaeology magazine. I once thought I would be one. Our trip to Greece in April will of course be focused on ancient history and what archaeologists have discovered.
ReplyDeleteI hope you have a lot of fun in Greece! Sounds very likely. I’ll never forget how a woman cleaning for me once said, Oh I’m from Malta, where your little sleeping goddess figure is from! She didn’t come back, and I wish I’d had a longer conversation with her.
DeleteThe ancestors graphic impressed me. So much genetic material in there.
ReplyDeleteI love thinking of myself the result of all that love.
DeleteI once had a vision of all of the lines of women behind me who are each a part of who I am and it has stuck with me. An endless line of women of all colors, stature, cultures, languages, abilities, customs...
ReplyDeleteAnd yet all of of us connected, not just by our genetic links, but by our very woman-hood. All of the things that are unique to the life-givers, the life-nurturers. This image comforts me.