Until the end; that is my answer. I will just keep writing as I have an enormous amount of material to put together with words to say with what I found on my trips through repositories (often on line but also on the ground) as I continue to transcribe both the the Old English/Middle English and Latin documents that I found to go with all of that later material (and I still have my son in laws' French Canadian ancestry and back into France as I have also collected at lot there). It will be fundamentally interesting likely also boring to some (although my definition of boring is a social gathering generally unless it is for a good cause) and I will go forward every step of the path that God sets before each and every one of us who live on the face of the earth. We have but to follow his commands and peace and prosperity will come to us. Not all of us think prosperity is about money; greed is the worst disease of mankind for sure. It topples governments and destroys people. It always starts out simple with wanting what everyone else seems to have but ends up in most cases with a bitter taste because things did not go precisely as desired. Too bad really as people individually and in a group have so much they could do for society especially the rich. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the exception it appears to those of us who read about him as he goaded and prodded his rich companions in the United States to build the infrastructure that made America great and it lasted a very long time. More money into the coffers of the rich is not the answer ever; Taxes are the answer and it is wonderful when you hear a "rich" person say that what is important to them is that the taxes are properly and well spent and not wasted by inefficiency that is music to my ears for sure. There are many who say that actually. Not all rich people are stingy and self caring; not all rich people hide their money away where they hope the government can not find it or if they do protect it so they do not have to pay taxes. Lots of people just pay their taxes but they want something; they want efficiency with that money. Pandering to those who are less fortunate for votes is annoying and really $250 doesn't go anywhere particularly these days.
An article today caught my attention as once again we face tariffs from our huge trading partner to the south. There are barriers between provinces (we share a lot with the States in the United States where each one considers itself its own empire!) for trade and we need to take them down and do what has to be done to protect our economy if the tariffs are placed to decimate the Free Trade that has existed between us from the Ronald Reagan days. Both of us have benefited and become stronger for that trade but most importantly we love being next to the United States; many Canadians have gone south over the generations and many Americans have come north; we are related by blood. It must be the colder weather but we are not as influenced by elected leaders after all we have our King and before that our Queen whom we greatly admired and they do not ask us for anything; they just come and wave at us and make us feel good and do not cost us a lot of money. Prime Ministers come and go; the more efficient they are sometimes is to their determent like Brain Mulroney. I would have liked to have seen him in Canada as Prime Minister when Bill Clinton was President of the United States. Their economic beliefs would have created an even stronger powerhouse of economics here in the Northern Hemisphere. When something is healthy you do not treat it; you maintain it and improve it.
Anyway another day of work. I am at page 117 on my way to 154 and the index which I will also look at since it is hand done rather than using the ability of word to create. The index ended up being just sixteen pages so not too bad. I also need to do the Kipp Newsletter but it will wait until I complete this time through and then I will create it. Still my mind has not had time to fully appreciate the results of the Y-700 test that we did on Edward's y-DNA. The results most interesting since six of his matches trace back or live in Norway but not surprising given the movement of people in the Common Era (CE) that we now live in for the last 2024 years or AD (Anno Domini - in the year of our Lord) as we learned in Church and in school years ago now. Edward did great work on the Kip genealogy back into the Netherlands and he had plans for a trip there and a trip to Germany which he was working away on when COVID struck. He was corresponding with several researchers there to help him in his quest. Someone else will pick that up hopefully one day but for the moment I am a caretaker of the study waiting for that person who is keen to follow the research where ever it takes them and not be a dream follower of what they want that ancestry to be. The real ancestry is the important one that takes one back and forth through the generations.
Breakfast time, tea drank and first my second set of exercises that take me through the day. Cleared the snow from the porch/patio and the company did the laneway. Snow wonderful snow has finally covered the ground (the trees can heave a sigh of relief once again at the protective covering). Then Latin and the Siderfin companion charting book to bring to its conclusion so that I can get on to the Blake and Pincombe books. Interesting that my thoughts on how my retirement would go resembled my grandmothers until it didn't. All thanks to George DeKay pushing me into something I never really wanted to do I thought until I contemplated how much my grandfather would love his Blake family to be published and my mother and uncle their Pincombe family to be published. But that came much later in my widowhood for sure although I did start collecting earlier probably because the grandparents who pushed me through childhood towards adulthood are still there in my mind creating that path for me through life.
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