Is chaos always the beginning of change; does it need to be? I wonder about that occasionally in my long days of reading. It is easier sometimes to have chaos erupt and let the pieces fall logically into place eliminating the outliers; the things that just do not work. But is it efficient? One has this view of the creation of our universe - chaos and then order but it did take a long time likely but that is still in the thinking and researching stage.
When I first started to think about revising the Siderfin book by James Sanders - it was meant to be a quick fix of the errors I had found but gradually as I sifted through the material I collected I did realize that there was sufficient to actually fulfill my main goal of proving my line back to John Siderfin at Loughborough in 1500. It needed to be sorted and proven and so I set out to do that through that two year period and did as far as I am concerned. But definitely chaos reigned initially as I had to go back into files I had not opened for ten years or more. What inspired that? I was spending quite a bit of time with my daughter after the death of my husband as her youngest was requiring exacting care to bring him from non-verbal to verbal and that necessitated her husband having to come here to spend week after week bringing him to his special school where that was happening and he was not yet two years of age. It was so very hard for her to let him go and have the kind of care that only specialists can organize and create. But now he is verbal and working away at that. For him, childhood was lost but yet he has retained a great deal of fun in his childhood by his own actions. It was during that time that the idea of revising the book first arose as my days were long in a strange place and so the mind could just run amuck sort of and it was during that time that chaos (my files referring to this family) came together and created logic. It was a very expensive process for my little one as private care can very often be but worth every penny to hear his voice in conversation. Each day is a gift of his voice. Just as bringing logic to chaos in my Siderfin files was well worth the effort and another will probably run with that in the future and perhaps bring together the records from the 1200s to the 1500s which perhaps exist one can only search and I leave that for another.
Yesterday up to page 111 and will continue today although a little more relaxed pace. I was going through my line yesterday back to Elizabeth (Siderfin) Rew and her descendants. Normally I do not trace the female line down much past the first generation in a one name study but in this case I did do so but it is very familiar to me and so I could advance a little faster but the volume of reading was heavy and so today I will take it a little easier as I work through her twin sister's lines. Then the Nurcombe-Siderfin line I did improve on with the Charting book and following that the youngest child Thomas and that work was primarily done by Auriol Carney and again I do give her full credit for her work as it was not mine except for occasional checks back into the records. Then a quicker read through just for consistency and a final read of the Preface and Acknowledgements to see if they suit and creation of the License and it will be ready to publish. Then finally back to Blake and Pincombe. It is seven months plus since I put them down to get ready for my cataract surgery and then the recovery period which I extended into September just to really give my eyes a rest for healing. It was an amazing time as my depth of vision became actual rather than surmised. The other day I was noticing that I could see the mist over the water in that oil painting that first revealed the difference to me (actually having depth of vision) because it was a picture I have known for a very long time. The painting is amazing and for the first time in my life I actually understand why people sit in a gallery and look at pictures for hours on end. There is so much hidden in a painting really it is amazing and great credit in my mind to people who sit and for hours create masterpieces of art that we still enjoy today from hundreds and thousands of years ago.
We have been watching the second year of Ancient Apocalypse and it is our second time through now as we appreciate all of the thoughts that Graham is putting into this work. I can see it as a collection of facts as he visits people around the world and listens to their thoughts on archeological treasures in their lands. This collection of thoughts will inspire many in the future I am sure. Sometimes it seems random what he collects but there is always a picture I suspect that will emerge now or later from all this fact collecting. He is a Citizen Scientist and those who fall into that grouping have the time and the money (or are able to persuade others to support such ideas) to put into place such projects which is a gift to the Scientists who will eventually use that data. Some people are like that - citizen scientists. There is a place for everyone in our world or there should be.
On to breakfast soon as teatime is complete. First stretching exercises of the day completed when I arose and now for a bit of Yoga to wake up the muscles before breakfast. Then exercising the mind comes next with Latin and finally back into the Companion Charting Book before Church for a first go of the day.
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