My Family Culture

Our post this week is our response to this scenario: A major catastrophe has almost completely devastated the infrastructure of your country. The emergency government has decided that the surviving citizens will be best served if they are evacuated to other countries willing to take refugees. You and your immediate family are among the survivors of this catastrophic event. However, you have absolutely no input into the final destination or in any other evacuation details. You are told that your host country’s culture is completely different from your own, and that you might have to stay there permanently. You are further told that, in addition to one change of clothes, you can only take 3 small items with you. You decide to take three items that you hold dear and that represent your family culture.

The first item I would bring is my grandmother’s wedding ring. This ring was passed down to me and it is one of the most treasured items I have. The second thing is my binder with all my ancestry and my pictures. The ancestry information goes all the way back to the 14^th century and includes pictures of my ancestors from the 19^th century. My great aunt gave me this binder and it will be good to share how my family came to be and my heritage. The third thing is a huge bag of yarn to create things. I have been crocheting since I was a young girl and I love to make just about anything I can: blankets, clothes, cloths, ect…

Upon finding out that I can only take one thing with me, I would take my grandmother’s ring. I have read my ancestry over and over again and spent many hours researching it. If that information needed to come up again, I could muster up some of it from memory. I cannot replace the ring so it is more important to me.

This has been an intriguing subject to ponder on. It has been somewhat difficult to pick out the items. It was also eye opening in that I have a better understanding of items and their importance in my life and in a time like this.  I hope that my items and family culture that I bring will help this new country and the people in it.