Unchained Heritage - Creative Essay

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long become insensitive.

The Elder shook his hands dry and glanced up at the position of
the sun. It was high overhead, indicating noontime. He sighed, knowing that
in a couple of hours his son would bring his family from Toronto to visit
him. He did not like his son very much, but he put up with the annual
visits for the sake of the grandchildren: he was their only link to their
heritage. For one month a year he would show them how their ancestors lived.
How he lives.

He thought back to his last visit to the Hogtown, more then
twenty years previously. An early morning walk along the lakeshore was
ruined by the constant reek of rotting fish and the deafening roar of cars
rushing past on the Gardiner. He had followed the shoreline until Don River,
where the expressway simply turned into a parkway: woes by another name. He
has wondered why expressways were always built along lakeshores and rivers,
the most ecologically-sensitive areas of the land, and decided ...

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passenger van, came to a stop
just meters away, and five figures poured out of its belly.

Two children ran up to the Elder and hugged him. "Gramps!" one of
them exclaimed. "We've missed you so much!"

The Elder forced himself to smile. He hated being called Gramps,
but that was what he was to the kids. "Let me look at you," he said pulling
away. "You've grown!" Beaming faces looked up at him happily in response.

A third child walked up and laid both hands on the Elder's
shoulders."Hello, Grandfather," he said."How's life up here?"

"Peaceful," he replied. "Have you finished school yet?"

"No," laughed the oldest child. "You always ...

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