As America awaits the 2024 presidential election, a 70-year old baby boomer offers alternative leadership Americans won’t see on the ballot: Ancestors. Unsure of what lies ahead for America, the Catholic Church, or any institution in the world, the cradle Catholic widow, mother, and grandmother born and raised in South Central Los Angeles and educated at the University of Notre Dame offers a new belief system based on love she’s willing to bet her life on.

And she has the receipts to prove it. Ancestors: Why They’re Speaking NOW is a love story written by Chandra Johnson Panton about the power of love.

She believes love sparked the Big Bang and lives in every cell of the human body. After writing biographies about her dead parents, especially her bipolar mother whose mitochondria she inherited, love took on a whole new meaning the day she met her beloved Henry in Florida in 2009 at a West African Ancestral Grief Ritual on the 4th of July.

A year later he fell ill and lost all memory of their “Miracle Year” together. Love pulled them through his 13-year battle with end stage renal disease and dementia until his transition to The Ancestral Realm on Halloween in 2023.

That’s when she knew love energy is the most powerful energy in the Universe. At his death, they became one.

No, this is not a work of fiction. It is a very real story about a very real love that comes only once in a lifetime.

It takes courage to believe in love over people. That’s why love’s not on the ballot.

It’s everywhere. .