Prayers for the children of Gaza and Israel - both of them should be able to have a life that is rich and peaceful. Changes have to happen for that to be realized. Hostages have to be released; Hamas must go - they do not respect the people of Gaza (they only use them as victims in their pledge to annihilate Israel). When Hamas and all the rest of the Satanists like Hamas are gone then the people of Gaza have an opportunity to create a government that would work for them and not use them as cannon fodder. They have not cultivated the land (God says we must take care of the land and produce what we need from it). The United Nations could certainly provide farming equipment and seeds, etc.
I noticed a bit of newspaper reporting that Palestinian Canadians do not think that our government is doing enough to help in Gaza. Basically the Palestinian Canadians could have brought thousands and thousands of the Palestinian children to Canada - all that was needed was their DNA to return them to their parents/family and that was way back near the beginning (January 2024 I believe) following the attack by Gaza (Hamas) on Israel. It is rare that an aggressor country gets to protect their children when they attack another country. As far as I am concerned the latest position put forward to the UN by Saudi Arabia and France and supported by many other countries including Canada is more than generous and the Palestinians (there are a million or more of you) have to make it happen - kick Hamas out; they are satanists (I saw lots of stones on the ground in the pictures of Gaza). The video of the hostages was criminal and sick and revolting and you have done nothing to free them as far as I can tell. Since my childhood (and I am nearly 80) Palestinians were murdering Jewish children in their schoolyards (think of the generations of Jewish children lost over the last 70 years because those children were murdered). Many countries around the world offered to take in the children of Gaza. There are lots of well to do Muslims in Canada and it would need to be Muslims who take them in so they are not frightened. Discussion closed.
Dreams and their value in our lives and my own experience with dreaming about my grandparents has been an interesting event in my life. I think part of that is my total concentration on the past as I write the books that meant so much to both my grandfather and my mother. As I puzzle over items that are a bit vague in my memory a dream will reveal that wonderful conversation that I had in particular with my grandfather. Usually it was at the Office where my Father had his business because those are my strongest memories of my grandfather most times but not always as he did live with us and I do have memories of him when he lived with us. But I used to go downtown with my father (I was the sort of child who really didn't make friends and avoided a lot of that; generally it would be mother reminding me that I had said I would do something and off I would go to do whatever it was but mostly I just preferred to be alone and reading) as he liked to take me to visit with his Dad whom I adored (as did he). I loved it when that happened. Sometimes he would be working with wood and making things usually for my father to use in his work. Other times I learned to sort items into their appropriate type (huge gaskets and things like that as there was a large wall devoted to this type of equipment used and the men could just pick them up and take them to the job they were doing). That was fun organizing that and we would do it together as my legs were young and I could easily run back and forth to the storage and pick whatever was needed as Grandpa kept that all organized. Other times we just sat and talked. It was lovely.
I do want to dream about the fun times that Edward and I had canoeing in Northern Ontario, playing with our children, going to Church together and discovering so many things about his father that he did not know (that was about six months after we married long before we moved here and after we bought the car). We would regularly drive to his home town (just 45 km away) and visit with the people he worked for as a child mostly but also his cousins and of course his close family. But I must admit a great deal of time was spent visiting with people who had known his Dad (one distant cousin after another would introduce him to yet another distant cousin that he had not known) and others who knew about the various Kipp lines that he wanted to learn more about. They loved that all of those distant cousins (2nd/3rd/4th) (some quite elderly in their 90s when he was just in his mid 20s) spending time with Edward and knowing that their stories had a place which brings me back to Edward's material and my desire that none of it should be lost. But he did scan everything we are discovering and entered a great deal of material into his Family Tree that is online.
I updated the Siderfin book online at the two repositories that I had submitted the earlier copy to and just one more place to update that. I also placed the Companion Book online at the two repositories (Library and Archives Canada and the Guild of one-name Studies). I just have one more place where I sent the first version of the revised Siderfin Book and will get that done today at Family Search.
We had six tasks to complete this year and just two remain. One is a copy of the VHS tape from the Centennial Service of the Diocese of Ottawa (and booklet) and I offered it to the Church Archives in case they would like the copy. The other is a large box of original pictures of the Kipp family of Oxford County, Ontario including the members of this family that went to Chilliwack, British Columbia - a large collection of originals that Edward collected through the years from family members.
Today I go and pick up my letter that says I do not need to wear a prescription lens to drive as it wasn't available Saturday morning unfortunately - life is busy. I just want the letter to remove the X from my driver's license. I have my test for 80 years shortly and if I am successful then I would like my license to reflect my actual condition (silly I suppose but after wearing glasses for 78 years of my life it just seems nice). As a child I never would have guessed that one day I would have this beautiful depth of vision which to be honest I never really realized I was missing. Seeing into pictures is a marvel for this old person. If they let me then I will do the eye test with my prescription glasses as well but time is short at these things so probably not but it would be interesting. I had the glasses made after my surgery with a bifocal reading lens so that I could still drive as my license is restricted. But one day I accidentally forgot to put them on for a couple of blocks and discovered that I really did not need them but quickly put them on. I actually never drive alone except to the grocery store so always have some one with me namely my daughter.
Time to go and make my tea and then do my solitaire games.
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