Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Your story

Continuing on my Hamilton high (diatribe).

In the song The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton says "Legacy, what is a legacy? It's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see."

And in the following song which ends the musical production, the repeating refrain is "Who tells your story?" and Eliza Hamilton tells the audience that she puts herself back in the narrative...


For a course I am taking, I recently was gifted the time to write my own obituary. It was such a difficult but freeing task... and it had me asking: 

What seeds have you planted? 

Who will tell your story? 

Are you an active participant in your narrative? 



Have you asked these same questions? Should you? 

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