How often do you think to the seventh generation after you?

This is hitting me in the face lately, as I study intensely with a psychic, seer and wayshower. (That’s a story for another day.)

It reminds me that content IS the knowledge pathway.

It’s not just keeping records or archives. It’s not just skills and knowledge capture. It’s story preservation.

The capacity for story to unite humans is immense.

For example, imagine that seven generations ago your forebears began documenting or otherwise recording (eg in drawings) their lives, how they lived, they’re issues, the talents and skills they had, their business knowledge (if any). Seven generations is approximately 175 years. That’s 175 years of unofficial history you’re missing.

Official histories document victories. Where people are displaced, they don’t document those who escaped. Where heroes are captured, their home lives and women are not.

I am lucky in that I can think back through three generations of artists, artisans, farmers, inventors, educators, and entrepreneurs. I’ve learned skills – like weather reading – that others don’t have. I feel deeply connected through the stories of relationships, of music, of money, of business. I’ve got roots that tap the deepest waters of life’s well, and understand where these forests were nurtured by the winds of time. It reminds me, daily, that all they had, I also have.

The content that you’re producing can have a much broader impact than in your short life.

It can capture a Zeitgeist.

It can record knowledge, patterns, skills.

It can train, educate, and enlighten.

And your stories can deeply connect you, your work, your circumstances, with the hearts and minds of those who come after you, whether those people are your children, your young team mates, or simply those whom you know.

This is why I’m offering to ghostwrite your memoir, autobiography or oral history right now for baseline rates.

Let’s think beyond ourselves and our insignificant business lives to the real impact.

How are you creating a pathway through the ages?

Xx Leticia “documentarian” Mooney

PS. Yell out if you want more info on the Ghostwriting stuff.