The way we experience the world—which is a singular amalgam of environment, experiences, gifts, and traumas—bequeaths to us possibilities, dispositions, desires, hopes that reside in us like spiritual muscle memories. What I aspire to is a factor of what I’ve inherited. What I imagine as a possible future—even what I can hear as a “calling”—is a reflection of what my past has made imaginable. Our now is always bequeathed to us.
