Volume 18 (Embrace)

We inherit more than objects.
We inherit ways of laughing,
recipes without measurements,
and the way the light slants
across the kitchen floor.

The language of the hearth,
stories told by firelight,
and the shapes of lives shared
weave patterns passed down
even when we’ve wandered far.

Because home is not only walls,
and belonging is not a place,
but the homes that built us
are carried through generations
like torches in our hands.