There’s always a place for the beauty, care, and respect found in traditional culture. We can search for it and find a way to bring it into the future so that the generations after us have a foundation on which they can build. The 19th-century British painter Frederic Leighton inspired me to deeply think about tradition with his painting “Winding the Skein.” ‘Winding the Skein’ In Leighton’s “Winding the Skein,” we see two figures winding yarn into a ball. The figure on the left is older than the figure on the right and gives off a motherly impression. We will call the figure on the left the mother and the figure on the right her daughter. The mother is dressed in simple, white, classical clothing, and she sits on a small bench. To her right is a basket of different colored yarns. She looks at the reddish yarn between her …