We are a very industrialized modern world but it continues to come down to providing food for the millions and billions. It is the second half of the reading that I found most interesting talking about the preparation of food from the raw material - "wheat and barley are pounded, but not beaten to a pulp, they are run over with a wagon, but not ground to dust. This wonderful knowledge comes from the Lord All-Powerful."
What does this passage tell us? Written thousands of years ago but perhaps a later addition as mentioned in the Concordance. Is it a sin to destroy food? I wonder about that; if that is what this particular set of verses is telling us. With millions suffering from food hunger does anyone have the right to destroy thousands of tons of food? The reason for Russia destroying the Ukrainian grain is greed and envy; they want the world to support them but we do not. They are imperialistic nazis who will only harm the world if they are not corralled inside of the borders that they have occupied since the fall of the Soviet Union (their fault, they attempted their imperialistic march into Afghanistan and failed). Why should the world have to pay for their greed; their only interest is themselves - the psychopathic Nazis Putin and his enablers. But here we are with fields of battle once again on the European continent having already fought battles in the last century to stop such nazism - such greed for land and property and power. It is also about power. The United Nations is the powerhouse in our world; it works why rock the boat when we have a system that works to keep people fed - the most basic of human needs. To keep people inside their borders; the system at the United Nations works. What we can do is increase the ability of the United Nations to keep peace in our world. Keep Russia corralled.
Our thunderstorm of yesterday showed us once again the power of Mother Nature and God in our world. A tornado dropped down at Metcalfe just to remind us that we humans do not control the world; we are subject to the world itself. If we learn nothing else from the Bible and early human origin stories then remember the Great Flood. We are but one species on this earth and most can survive without us and the world would be purer and cleaner. We need to look to the future and clean up the world so that it will be an inhabitable place for Homo sapiens descendants. Get out of Ukraine Russia; you Russians harm our world so much with your greed, envy, larceny and graft.
More work on the 10th generation of the Siderfin family yesterday as I reach towards the eleventh generation. Perhaps I will complete the formatting of the text for the 10th by the end of the weekend. I keep finding more ways to speed it up. I still have to footnote this section but that is actually quicker than formatting.
As well we did a mid-week four hour stint working on the boxes and separating out more Link material for Edward's cousin. Mostly pictures of their mutual grandfather (they are half-first cousins) and family pictures that belong to his side of the family. This does make an extra split in the records as his first wife was an Allen descendant (she died when Edward's mother was young) and the second wife a Davis descendant so there is about a twenty year difference in age between the sets of siblings. Also found more Schultz material and a new idea for the Allen material (original images). Will write to the New Brunswick archives to see if they would like to have this collection but that is next summer. That is a huge task as well along with the Kipp collection of early settlers in British Columbia. More items for Edward's nieces as well. It is a shame to split the collection but there are researchers in several different sections and it is more important to have the work utilized in another's research to keep this work moving forward.
More work on that today as there are still two boxes of pictures to examine in the search for all of the Schultz pictures. We also started a box of personal memories of our family time. All of that was spread across the boxes as well. Edward and I made a collection of wild flowers (slides) that is a wonderful set of images from our days canoeing in northern Ontario before children. Not sure what to do with that although his grandsons may one day enjoy them so will not break that up but let them choose when they are older. There was so much he could have shown to them that one is saddened looking at all of this work. We collected data on one particular wild flower but life changed and we did not after all publish that work. The collection of data is still there as created fifty years ago. It was a trip down memory lane looking through that data.
The day moves onward and must get my breakfast.
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