As we approach the end of July (just over one week away), I am noticing that it is darker in the evening as we watch our documentaries on the Television before doing our "Walk it Out" which is often a run rather than a walk! I love documentaries which is probably reminiscent of all those travel books I read as a young child. But especially I love documentaries about the natural world which is rapidly disappearing from our view these days. So many animals are on the endangered list and fish as well as birds in the sky. Mankind has not been a good guardian of the earth and we need to do better.
Especially Russia needs to stop bombing and sending all that pollution into the skies. It will only make it worse along with forcing Germany to go back to coal burning energy because Russia is so greedy for land. Greed is one of the greatest sins that has been part of Homo sapiens for eons - always greedy.
Today I read an article that Canadians are helping the ultra-rich to leave China presumably to escape income tax there - when will people learn to share the resources. Minimum Income is the way to go. Everyone over eighteen should have a minimum income - as a conservative that is the best way to protect the plant; the best way to encourage people to be better; to seek knowledge and to raise children who feel the future is there for them. Minimum Income supports the industries/services in the area where people live because that is where they are going to spend it.
Continuing to work on the Protestation Returns and I am actually finding very few that I did not already know. The spellings in the 1640s were variable but my beginnings into one name studies in 2008 appear to have captured the Pincombe family quite well thus far. But I am less than half way through the Protestation Returns so time will tell plus I am being on the careful outlook for the Pinkham surname and its varieties since the original two researchers brought these two family names together with the idea that they had a common ancestry. Indeed members of the Pincombe family did use the spelling Pinkham even back into the 1600s.
Also continuing to downsize. We worked on the tools yesterday - two of eight shelves were sorted and listed. It is never ending really and a sort of life story as we work our way through the tools many of which I gave to Edward as Christmas presents and Birthday Presents and Anniversary Presents through the years. One builds up this large reservoir of tools, books, personal items, dishes through the years and then as the tide turns and one becomes older it is necessary then to downsize these items as one is able. That is the process in which I find myself and probably for awhile as I must also downsize the research boxes and give them a good home with another aspiring researcher in these family lines. I wonder sometimes if one of my daughters will take up the challenge but I do not think so. There are some aspects of the research that might interest them like the DNA perhaps as both are of a scientific leaning but the accumulation of a large tree (Edward has over 80,000 people in his personal tree and a much larger tree for the Kipp family) doesn't interest any of us.
Although I prefer science as a field to study in; I am a great lover of history and can often be found reading about historical happenings. As a conversation it can be quite fascinating to speak to people in different countries and get their take on history as well. We all view history through the lens of our upbringing and our experiences. In some ways that is a dangerous precedent because history is best served up by those who are not emotionally involved but see its happenings in a logical and exacting way so that the real history can be written about and one always hopes that such people will always exist in our world writing history as it actually occurs and not altered or changed to suit one aim or another.
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