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Passed Down
The everyday things we all share, and the wisdom that came before the internet
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48 pages · about 1 hr to read
What we all share: sleep, washing, getting dressed, eating and greeting, and how cultures around the world do each one.
How people learned before the internet: kitchens, stories, proverbs, songs, rites of passage and elders.
30 questions to ask an elder: a ready-made conversation starter for grandparents, parents and neighbours.
What you’ll get from it
Whoever you are and wherever you live, your day looks a lot like everyone else's. You sleep. You wake up and wash your face. You clean your teeth, get dressed for work, school or university, eat, and say hello to the people around you.
- A small "Try this today" in every chapter: simple things to do with the people around you, offline.
- 3 printable pages: Ask an Elder, Our Family Recipe, and Our Traditions and Sayings.
- A BookTheShop Original: written for everyone, whoever you are and wherever you're from.
What’s inside
- Introduction: Before the Search Bar Part One: The Things We All Do
- Rest: The Eight Hours We All Need
- Waking and Washing: Small Rituals, Big Meaning
- Getting Dressed: What Our Clothes Say
- Eating Together: The World's Oldest Table
- Greetings: How the World Says Hello Part Two: How We Learned Before the Internet
- The Kitchen Classroom
- Stories, Proverbs and Songs
- Rites of Passage: Growing Up Together
- Elders: The People Who Remember Part Three: Bringing It Back
- The Conversation Project: Questions to Ask an Elder
- Start a Tradition
- Pass It On Closing: The Same Tune Bonus: Pages to print and share
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About this book
Every culture on Earth does these things in its own way, and when you look closely, the differences turn out to be variations on the same tune.
Passed Down is a warm, easy read about what connects us. It travels from siestas to bedtime lullabies, from chewing sticks to the Sunday roast, from the namaste and the bow to the hongi. Along the way it remembers something we forget: for almost all of human history, there was no internet. Everything a person knew, they learned from another person. Recipes were taught by hand, history was carried in stories and songs, and the elders were the search engine.
This book is a gentle invitation to bring some of that back. Each chapter ends with a few takeaways and one small thing to try today. Part Three gives you 30 questions to ask an elder, ideas for starting a tradition of your own, and ways to pass on what you know. At the back are three printable pages to fill in together: a conversation with an elder, a family recipe, and your family's traditions and sayings.
Read it on your own, share it with your family, or give it to someone you'd like to sit down and talk with.
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