If I examine my ancestors’ lives carefully, their struggles, achievements, and unfulfilled dreams, the specific context of their lives, the reality of their deeds, those openly spoken and the whispered, shadowed ones—if I bring the everyday manifestation of Life through my ancestors into the light of consciousness and trace the vibrant pulse from roots to budding branches, I can glimpse the vast, encompassing logic of Life expressing itself through me, as a result of the Evolution shaped and carried by all those before me, so that I, the One Who Is, may Exist.