Show your roots —
Make known the ones you named you (the truest you)
Make known the ones who shaped you (the still becoming you)
Live roots made visible.
The love,
The care,
The nurture,
The belonging.
The wholeness,
of every community,
of every neighbor,
of every parent,
of every friend,
of every guide,
still shaping,
still claiming.
–Renee Roederer
Smuggling Grace 
I can’t help thinking of the antithesis—the roots of abuse and trauma—they show just as obviously and they can’t be hidden or pruned away.
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Yes, that is true. Thankfully, we can find community and chosen family in ways that help us lay new foundations too.
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