Pillar V — Chapter 6.5
Cultural Capital
The reason grandchildren feel they belong.
Traditions, ceremonies, language, recipes, stories, music, art, photography, family holidays, family symbols, coat of arms, and family motto. Culture is the memory a body of people carries in its bones.
Practices
What this pillar looks like on the calendar
- Coat of arms and motto
- Family holidays observed
- Recipes documented
- Stories retold at each summit
- Music, art, and photography kept
- Family language preserved
- Rites of passage
The Anchoring Ritual
"The founder's dinner — an annual meal cooked from the family's oldest recipes and set with the family's oldest table linens."