Today I did some research and wrote a Yoga Nidra script, and had hoped to get it recorded. But, life threw a gem in my lap.
Now this isn’t something that you would normally think of as a Holistic approach to finding your genuine self. However, I do think that it fits.
This morning in amongst all of my doings, my ADD self decided to check my ancestry.com account and there was a message. A man stated that he had a picture of my Great Grandparents and Great Uncle. So I decided to take a look. To my surprise, they were indeed my great grandparents on my Grandmother’s side and finding any information about the Volenec side is exciting to me. As the search had become stagnant for a while. Here is the picture that he sent.
Well, This man said that his Grandfather was Charlie. Helen’s brother. So I connected with a long lost cousin. How cool is that! Before I get too ahead of myself. This is the picture that I had of my Great Grandmother, Antonia.I don’t know which child she is holding, but it’s an awesome picture that definitely confirms that she was indeed the same woman.
My cousin D, we will call him that for now as I haven’t asked permission to share his identity, and I put pieces of a puzzle together today. My Grandma Helen and Adolph Sr. had 11 children. So D’s Dad worked with my oldest uncle in the late 60’s. They became friends. Not knowing that My Uncle was related to him, until later (I’m assuming). Because in the late 80’s my Uncle helped D’s Dad connect with his biological father, Charlie. D only remembers meeting his grandfather once. This is the only picture of Charlie that he had.
Things were different back then. Most folks didn’t talk about personal affairs like this. But D’s Grandfather and my Great Uncle Charlie, had been married before and had an only child with his first wife. So, he wasn’t known to all of us all of these years until now.
D asked if I had a picture of our Great Grandfather, As D’s dad had never seen his face n( it was hidden in the picture that they had. Well, I had one in a bag of photos that my Mom had given me.
So, these are our Great Grandparents, Bohumil and Antonia. Im not sure which child is in the picture.
Anyway, a little bit of me became more genuine through this ancestry connection today and felt the relevance for my blog. Sometimes you look outside the box. Sometimes life just gives you gems.
Family is family. Sometimes we don’t always know the importance of it all. But, it is important. People that come into your life with purpose, some whom are blood and some whom are not, can have an impact on our soul and definitely become a part of our whole self. Good, Bad indifferent – people that come and go in our lives play important rolls into who we decide to become.We get to choose the parts, and if they stay or not. But they definitely affect our cake.
The Cake!
This is an analogy that I came up with as a kid. I sometimes ask myself which part each person that comes into my life is. My analogy substitutes people as ingredients for my cake of life; some are my sugar (constant sweetness, your encouragers), some are the flower (help build your structure can be good or bad/ definitly folks that teach us lessons), some are the eggs(they are the ones that make it all stick together), then the icing (passions and loves), and sprinkles (all the others, even the sweet folks that you meet on the street, hold doors), and, some are just indifferent crumbs. But, all in all they encompass important ingredients to your life. You can’t have some with out the other. Hope your cake tastes good.
Stay safe and well. Love, Dawn
The Holistic Road 