Each family, however modest its origin, possesses its own particular tale of the past - a tale which can bewitch us with as great a sense of insistent romance as can ever the tradition of kings. - Llewellyn Powys. The M.I.L.K. project was conceived to honour what it is to be part of a family. Look at the men, women and children on these pages. In their faces you will recognise yourself and your loved ones, for you, too, are a member of the great kinship that is the human family. As James McBride writes,