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Some years ago, I was a student of a Native American of Pueblo heritage. In his culture, the qualities the article spoke about were named principle ideas. There was a principle idea of “carrying” invoked by sitting in a chair. That was one example when the chair and seated person were picked up and carried by three men., while we chanted the word for chair. The idea there is a resonance to places because of the use and history makes perfect sense to me. Rupert Sheldrake called it morphic resonance.

I don't know the age of your grandsons, but the brain does not reach it's fully functioning maturity until the early twenties. Prior to that education is teaching the brain to retain and regurgitate learning.  Also there is an aspect of "truth doesn't transfer". What is significant to you may be meaningless to them.  With my own grandchild, I try to ask how they perceive a story or experience and share how I do, then hopefully a dialog ensues and they at least learn to express their beliefs and entertain yours.

A spiritual teacher once told me that when we write things down we stop the process. Writing comes from the left brain and processing from the right. Maybe when you read what you wrote, you are reacting to the complexity that didn't get brought out.  Perhaps allow the emotion around whatever you are wanting to write down to circle around a bit longer.  Then the other part of teacher's recommendation, write as few words as possible.  Try to see if yu can distill into once sentence the overall meaning.

I appreciated your post about Oscar Wilde and the sentence about truth. Thanks for sharing that.