How do we enter into relationship with our ancestors? Most of us begin with names, dates, records, and family stories. I did too. But the deeper I went, the more I realized it is something we practice. A relationship built through attention, imagination, place, accountability, and the questions that refuse to leave us alone. Sometimes a thread begins in an archive but it unravels beside a river, on a mountain, or in the sudden feeling that a place you've never seen before is somehow already familiar.