Soul
“We will leave for others what we should do with the soul.”
My grandma shared the history of our Irish heritage as a wedding gift last winter. I never knew our ancestry until the newspaper articles and a note listing our lineage.
It traced back to our great-great-great-grandma in Ireland. She came to America during the potato famine and lived with family in Chicago until she met my great-great-great-grandpa, a farmer in Michigan. She raised children on the farm, had an extreme work ethic, was strong-willed, stubborn, and tender-hearted.
We will leave for others what we should do with the soul.
I wanted to know more. Her inner thoughts, maybe her fears or names of other people she shared the boat with to get here. Her time in Chicago? Maybe life on the farm?
My curiosity might have something to do with the 20-some journals I've filled so far. One of the desires to write for Brave Girl. When I pass, there will be more information than anyone cares to know on my inner thoughts, my fears, the names of the people who have made an impact on my life. A lot of it could get lost in time, space, damage. Some of it will stay, hopefully, the most important stuff.
Maybe I'll be a great-great-great-grandma someday and my surviving family will say, "She had an extreme work ethic, was strong-willed, stubborn, and tender-hearted."
We will leave for others what we should do with the soul.
