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How do we negotiate time in the present and hold hope for the future, when the literature of your history, of ancestral traumas housed, unmetabolized, in our bodies, has not as yet been narrated into consciousness? What mediating factors might enable us to negotiate historical and recent loss and, furthermore, facilitate mourning? In this essay, I consider the initial and continued impact on me of first listening to, then re-reading, Adrienne Harris’ evocative presentation, and later publication of, “You Must Remember This” (2009). These revived experiences shepherded me into reflecting spaces, particularly regarding the significance of ghosts, or duppies, as they are referenced in Jamaican culture. Are duppies, in the cultural collective, empowered as links and potential mediators between past and present – as keepers of ancestral secrets that, if newly learned, or “rememoried,” might facilitate subjective and relational transformation? In this regard, the voices of Toni Morrison and Stewart Hall offer contemplative possibilities.