Translate lineage into action by keeping a living archive: record elders’ stories, preserve a recipe, or annotate a family photograph with a lesson it carries. Then ritualize the link—light a candle before a hard task, wear a grandmother’s ring to an interview, or begin projects with a brief ancestral invocation. In communities, create mentorship circles that treat each member’s background as a library rather than a label. Finally, craft forward-looking pledges: a letter to the next generation explaining how you will convert inherited bravery into concrete beginnings—applications sent, doors knocked, bridges built. Thus the passport is not decorative; it is presented at each threshold, and stamped anew by our own courageous departures. [...]