From my grandmother to your potential children, we are connected together, shaped and changed by the environment around us from generation to generation. What my grandma Doris ate, the stresses she experienced, the environment around her—all of this is now part of who you and I are today, embedded in our bodies. Who you are, who you are becoming, is connected even further to the past with hidden and visible ties, the line of ancestors behind us and their influence on who we are stretching back to the original moment of cosmic creation, in the star matter that formed the elements in our human bodies. The industrial cleaning product fumes from the office in the basement of the supportive housing building where I worked during the fall of 2018 while pregnant with you in Kitchener, Ontario, and the peaches from Huffman’s Fruit Farm in Salem, Ohio, that Grandma Doris ate in the summer of 1954, and the carbon expelled in a supernova star explosion thirteen or fourteen billion years ago: all are part of who you a…