My life is a journey, it is my story. Though it may not be recorded in history books, it has mythic proportions for me and for those close to me. Sharing personal stories enrich those who come after me. I am inspired and led by the stories of my elders. Family stories have special meaning because I feel the right to identify with them. They help me to know my own personal history, to write the book of my life. Each person in my family has traveled on his or her own journey, own vision quest. Hearing about how my relatives have sought meaning helps me have the courage to seek my own. The trail that they have blazed feels like mine to walk on and then to bequeath to my progeny.

I will listen to and share family stories.

In short, the soul-journey resembles very much the sort of adventure one encounters in folk lore and myth. According to archaic view, all men apparently had the chance to become a sort of Odysseus, whether they liked it or not.
Paul Zweig