Every one should write a personal history. If you don't write it, it may be written by someone else. It will be a history, but not personal. The imact will be lost. Write one experience at a time. A birth certificate proves you were born. A personal history proves you lived-really lived. A pedigree chart proves your ancestors lived. A family history proves that they lived and because of them--you are now alive.
My face is really not mine alone. It was not shaped by my victories or defeats, joys or sorrows alone, but was designed before I ever drew a living breath. It began with my great grandfather, grandmother--or was it their parents, or theirs? I'm made up of a peculiar blend of an ancestral reservoir--a little bit of him, a touch of her