Elders, Sacred Memory & Research - MMCxchange https://mmcxchange.com/ Thu, 21 May 2026 09:36:15 -0400 en-US hourly 1 Baltimore Times RSS Hub Elders, Sacred Memory & Research https://mmcxchange.com/detail/elders-sacred-memory-research_1777209041 Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:28:49 -0400 https://mmcxchange.com/detail/elders-sacred-memory-research_1777209041 Elders, Sacred Memory & Research

One of my favorite African Proverbs and one that is a guiding star to the Baltimore Legacy Project is “The youth can move quickly, but the elders know the way.” It is less a proverb than a warning; speed without direction is not progress, and momentum untethered from memory can lead a community in circles. This is what we risk when we don’t fully engage our elders as architects and knowledge producers. The result is a quiet but consequential distortion: a record that is thinner than it imagines…]]>