tracing stories where stories begin? not at birth, not at the discovery of your path carved for you carved by you beginnings go far far back as time when light was called forth from darkness and land surfaced on the waters, becoming everything else the world conceived and formed in a week plus rest and the telling of the Big Bang billions of years back stories and (hi)story the genesis of our world, our story set characters make entrances and exits playing roles, neglecting parts your entrance brings you here (and our entrances converge at this time) to play, to create, to be - before you exit the beginning of your story like the beginning of your grandparent's, back back back to their forbears' forbears the beginning of your story! ...