I did find the sermon at yesterday's service (along with many of my favourite hymns) to be very thought provoking. I am not sure anyone has ever presented Pilate in that way to me in a sermon nor have I read anything similar. It was very very interesting to look at him as the conquering Roman leader rather than a unassuming distant appointee simply trying to keep the peace but having all sorts of difficulties. An interesting way to look at this period of our history in the world. That is what conquering peoples are like as I see it particularly in this century, haughty and ignorant. They have reached backwards into the barbaric times of the human existence and tried to take away the modern image of the world. Does it work? Only time will answer that question. My father used to say, when I was a child, that tribalism was one of the prime problems in the world. You can be of one country but trying to force that on another sovereign country is always going to be wrong. Whether you are a tiny nation in the middle of the Pacific or a country on a large continent borders are borders and should be respected. Just because you dream of something that existed because of war doesn't mean it has to come back just because you want to be a dictator and own everything and put your opinion out there as right. Using the threat of nuclear weapons is just ignorant and sloppy. If your cause is not right then you are wrong and should retreat and give people back their space that you have stolen. One thing though has been proven beyond a doubt; NATO is a defensive organization not an aggressive one and has given millions of people in Europe space and freedom (the European Union has a huge population).
We may get snow finally and of course one should always be careful not to be too enthusiastic as we could get loaded down as usual here in the Ottawa Valley. But it would be nice to have some. Laneway all ready for the snowplow and that is taken care of so not a problem of this old person. I do love the snow; the pristine whiteness as you look out the window on the dreary landscape now that the leaves are gone and everything has turned yellow (or brightly coloured but that is gone now). Winter is settling in as it is minus 3 celsius today and the cold without the snow cover kills the plants so a danger there for future growth.
Yesterday I reached page 117 where I will begin today whilst continuing with my cleaning as this is the small cleaning day so should get maybe ten pages or better today. I am slowly reaching 152 pages. It will be nice to be finished and to put the book up on my website for the Siderfin families of the world.
My mind is starting to move to Blake and Pincombe for sure and I am quite happy to be heading back there again. Why I did Siderfin? I just felt that James Sanders would have wanted that; someone to pick up what he did and run with it. So I did and it has been a long run for sure. When I worked, at some of my jobs, through my life I was involved with writing books, editing and proofreading so it just seemed like a natural thing to take it on after George DeKay convinced me to do the Pincombe Profile for the Westminster Township book. Then once into it something my mother had said rang a bell and it sent me back to my mother's letters of twenty five years to find it. There I realized her strong interest in family history (although I think I knew that but it was twenty eight years since we had moved here and our visits back were mostly spent talking about the grandchildren with a little history of family mixed in. Rereading the letters made me realize that she was very very interested in her Pincombe family history and I did find the comment she had made which led me to a slightly different source looking for details for the Profile. And I did find it and she was right; she often was for sure. But then mothers are like that many times.
So breakfast next, start the robot as it is time to do the basement and then my latin with a cup of honey lemon tea whilst I wait for the vacuum to do its chore.
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