From the Beginning

Hansel and Gretel dropped breadcrumbs showing

from where they had come. So, when they turned

around they could find their way back home.

The bloodhound is given an escaped convict’s

personal item to sniff, picks up the prisoner’s

scent and tracks him to the spot of his hiding.

Given written history, Alexander the Great can

be traced from childhood training throughout his

adult life and his conquests of the known world.

Frank Lloyd Wright left an indelible mark with his

architectural and designer’s trail of construction

across America.

Picasso’s artistic evolution can likewise be defined

from his earliest period throughout his long and

prolific career.

As a budding journalist on through his revelatory

autobiography, Mark Twain left the world with an

illustrious body of his travels and adventures.

Grandma and Grandpa may have told stories of

their past and left us with mementos saved along

the way. Although never famed in the annuls of

history, their legacy is a hereditary chronology which

leads to you and me. Leave a trail of breadcrumbs for

familial progeny yet to come. Hopefully they will

discover their heritage before the birds in time devour

every trace. Horse thief or king, everyone deserves to

know from whom and where they come.

Me, I got Grandpa’s Greek nose, an old photograph of

him, and thirteen Indian-head pennies.

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Chris Hanch 4-27-2020