My home my soul

I was taking a trip across the world today by using the youtube website. I traveled to Finland, Germany, Japan, India, Ireland and so many wonderful places. I was searching for traditional folk tunes. I was so sad to see that in some countries folk is turning to metal rock. I of all people understand the youth and the need to be up on the times. I wish however they could not do this to their folk heritage. If they only knew what it means to lose your heritage.
Coming from America, most would say I am American but my roots are all Germanic. My soul has a memory that stretches out back to my European roots. I am trying so hard to recapture what used to be, only finding that the homeland people are wanting to be like me and my country. Dont do it good people. Dont make the same mistake I did. Save yourselves from a heart filled with wonder and sorrow. Keep what you have sacred. Keep the old stories, the old music, the old clothing. Keep your honor and love of family, keep everything as it once was. You will be the originals and we will always be the ones to come searching for you.
I dont know what caused my people to leave Europe. It wasnt written. Most of my family traditions are gone, and what is left will not be passed down to any of the children because they are not interested in having it. My grandmother used to call her sheep in by yodeling. I used to think it was so stupid. No one in my family has sheep anymore. And yodeling was a crime against rock and roll as far as I was concerned. By the time I graduated high school I have to admit I thought my mom was pretty cool. She made the towns maids dresses for our Bavarian festival and she ALWAYS won the yodeling contest. I soon left home, got married and had kids. I never learned to yodel. Mom died and took that with her. Im the only one who really wanted to try, I just got to busy. Now that my kids are grown and having kids of their own they will have even less heritage than I do.
I can go to Germany I can visit my distant relatives in Canada and New England but the family link seems gone forever because of careless handling.
If you have family stories, music, wedding traditions, funeral traditions, food, ANYTHING at all that has been passed down. Keep it close to your family and TEACH your children. It doesnt matter if they dont want to know. Make them know who they are, where they came from, and how they should be. It is the most important thing a family can do. It is the most important thing a country can do.
....and from this point of view, Its the most important thing a single soul can know.

lost in a melting pot made of lack of tradition caused by political correctness and lack of concern, steeped in shame and guilt from religion and self importance
LAdy Raven
Germanic heritage dating back to 1632 somewhere on the land where two rivers crossed and the people farmed wheat in the north