By remembering all the old stories and by telling them to the young among you, by respectful, sustainable human ways of living, you keep that small part of the world that is your home alive. This is the great ellipse of being human and knowing your obligation to life. In time, you learn what your death will mean. And in a little more time you become one of the ancestors you once nourished. This is the arche of human life, its real foundation. This is the warp and weft of home.
