Opening an ancestral superhighway
Dear friends, Something ‘ important significant and necessary ’ happened yesterday. After waiting two days, I opened the ancestry.com email and read my DNA results. I’d love to share this story with you. This happened at 6.30 in the afternoon. Outside, it was still fiercely hot. I could smell the sandalwood incense by the swimming pool. Evening was still way over the mountain, invisible and far away, approaching at its own pace. I was cool inside my dimmed shabby chic small Spanish sitting room. After 2 months waiting for the DNA results, they had arrived. Disappointment immediately filled my whole body. Strange as it may sound, this was better than being completely, off the scale, overwhelmed. I was afraid I might have just exploded in a huge surge of emotion. Where did my father, ...