SpeakTruth: God Knows No Words

Family trees are our personal map tracing the related individuals who are linked to our birth. The state or territory we live in has another history containing those who forged the communities in which we now reside. Nations are yet another wider circle of identifying factors contributing to our place in the here and now. Ethnicities remain a deeply held element of identity, as we can see by the ongoing debate about the colour of skin. There are, also, religious groupings, which remain closely connected, for some, to a sense of cultural identity. Who we are is not really all about the singular individual, as it is coloured by many contributing factors.

Time and life cycles affect our perception of our identity. When we are young, we are emerging from our family-based sense of self. Many of us want to make our mark, as distinct individuals, and strive to do so for years. Eventually, however, this motivating force dissipates, and we turn back to see who we really are in terms of family history and our place in the timeline of our community. Time gets us all in the end and we begin to comprehend that our life spans are tiny in comparison to the histories of humanity and the earth itself.

This is a collection of my eclectic writings over the past decade or more. Much of it published online in one form or another, fulfilling some role for someone or something.

Robert Sudha Hamilton