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This piece is called "Honor in Ancestry." We are all told to respect our elders, and if led down the path completely, we learned to hold our elders and ancestors to the highest degree in a scene. Growing up, I heard hundreds of stories while sitting in a rocking chair, some would have thought that I was spending quality time with one of my elders. Truth be told, I was plotting on the cookie jar. Still, lessons were learned. My sense of family, understanding of struggle, and thirst for knowledge were all born in that chair. To be in the presence of one born in 1889 was unfathomable, yet there she was. To look at a beautiful, strong, sensitive person who'd worked fields overcome blindness and slurs and didn't rest on the power of her nearly Caucasian skin complexion, and know that I was of her blood filled me with fortitude and sent me off to investigate life. Did I always follow my first instinct or completely listened to heated warnings? Absolutely not, but at least I was blessed to have received them. Now a