If a child of very quirt, home-loving parents and grandparents should display the love of travel and adventure that had characterized a sea-captain ancestor, it would be called a case of atavism.
I looked at pictures of my parents and grandparents and tried to imagine their parents, and so on, back through the generations, back and back through time.
But remember, that's always been true for your parents, grandparents, and all prior generations, it's natural to be a bit intimidated by the uncertainty you do face.
So, with the help of family and friends, the high school sophomore converted her grandparents' unused truck to a mobile coffee shop, and, voila, espresso and college savings.
To us, it feels like the American musical has always been, since no one in this room and none of our parents and most likely any of our grandparents were alive in 1866 to see it begin.