Neshama: Unearthing Family Stories to Heal Complex Identities, a guest post by Marcella Pixley

Neshama: Unearthing Family Stories to Heal Complex Identities, a guest post by Marcella Pixley

When I was a little girl, I loved looking at old photographs. Whenever I visited my grandparents’ apartment in Brooklyn, I would ask my grandpa to take out the old family album. We would sit on the plastic-covered, green, floral velvet couch, our legs touching, with the album across our two laps, thrumming with memories like a garden of ghosts blossoming just beneath the surface. Opening the album felt like saying a prayer. We would turn the pag…