It is all about respect for our fellow man; loving our neighbour as ourself. Without it we are just like the animals in the wild protecting their territory and expanding it whenever they felt they could when the other side was weaker. That is really what NATO is all about; creating a line of respect and fighting back when the respect isn't returned. It was a beautiful aim when it was created at the beginning of the Cold War and has served Europe and the members who support the belief that this world can be a better place where wars no longer happen. It was so simple those words when Jesus brought them to us and created the foundation stone of the Christian Church. But two thousand years has seen viscous wars fought and so many deaths; it is time to move to that uplifted plain of peace. One prays for that every day.
The sermon yesterday at Church was very very interesting and I thank the priest for his delivery of it. It was especially a really excellent Advent I sermon I think. Advent is the time of watching and waiting for the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ; the memory of his birth comes to us on Christmas Eve year in and year out as we celebrate God's gift to mankind. A gift that keeps on giving through the centuries as we slowly adjusted our societies to a more equitable system but it does take so much time and respect has to be learned by all for all around them. Just because you think everything should go as you want it to go doesn't mean that that would be the way God wants it to go. God wants peace for us and we have to move in a way that creates that peaceful society in this world. The rhetoric has to be for peace not for ownership especially not ownership of people which includes telling them what they can and cannot belong to or how they have to speak; or who their friends are. Peace in our time was the motto that carried our young men and women into a battle where too many laid down their lives for that very peace. We must have it in this century; too many have died trying to give it to us. Prayers for peace as always.
Mostly yesterday was a working day - washing clothes and working on matches (just a little, Sunday is a rest day and that includes my eyes which had had three days of research). The day passed quickly and I also cleared the snow from my porch and patio and the top of the laneway so that the company could clear the rest of the laneway and especially the end of the laneway; I am getting too old to move that for sure. It was heavy snow absolutely made for snowman building although I do not see any out the window. The children are mostly all grown around this house although there are a few. Most of the matches going into the "too small" folder because I can not really be sure whether they are Rawlings or Pincombe/Blake or Buller. They are all in that very long length (20 to 40 cM) with either two siblings matching or three siblings matching but without any other match to help or a match in common (and I like there to be a couple of those matches in common) they are probably very ancient in our Most Recent Common Ancestor (MRCA). They are still interesting and mostly American colonial descendants actually so no more than 10th to 11th great grandparent for the MRCA but that makes us 11th or 12th cousin and who would expect to share DNA that far back that one could actually see as a reasonable length. It is simply a common area shared by many with ancestry back to the British Isles likely and before that to the European Continent and before that to Africa thousands of years ago. We are still learning very much about all of that. So into the "too small" folder but still painted on DNA Painter in each sibling file.
I read an article published by Nature Communications on the five stages of homo sapiens' brains in terms of age - Infant lasts to 9 years and adolescent from 10 years to 32 years, adult from 33 years to 66 years when early aging begins around 67 and then late ageing begins around 83 years.An interesting compilation by the scholar Dr Alexa Mousley who led the research. It does reinforce the idea that living with one's parents well into one's 20s is a good idea. I was thrilled to have our children stay with us so long for many reasons; I thought it helped them by not forcing home ownership on them so young and just having to worry about their studies whilst time passed. Then there were the surprises which blessed us as well as we grew in family size (of course I grew up in a house with nine people in it so space was not a big deal with me (plus I lived in the attic all on my own until my baby sister joined me when she was two years of age and I was ten and it does strike me that assigning adolescence to ten seems very logical in my opinion as I became somewhat of a little mother to her). The traveling that Edward wanted to do fitted so well into all of that as he was always conflicted leaving everything behind like that but the house was always full so he happily traveled about the world (when I finally got him to cross the ocean) and enjoyed every moment of that travel. He couldn't get enough of it finally and wanted to travel to Europe every year but I needed time to prepare for each trip so that we saw and did the absolutely maximum we were capable of seeing and doing. Did we miss anything? Well he wanted to go to the opera in Budapest I think it was and we didn't do that but if time had been on his side we would have. But we did do all of the items that he had on his original check list. My only aim was to go to England for the most part and meet with my cousin but I am a bit like that; I do not have a long list of things that I need to see. A picture is good; I am really not much of a spender in that way; neither of my time nor of my monetary expenditures. But having lived through a bankruptcy as a young child it formed different ideas in my mind I rather think. As a young child I was not bothered that I wore my brother's shoes or even clothes on occasion and I rather liked all of that family time when we would sit and listen to my father read a story. New clothes were not something that I missed at all; after all I was the fourth child with an older sister whose hand me downs I wore until I was six inches taller! By then I was babysitting and making my own clothes or buying them. Once his business was back up and running we would scarcely see him again as he was busy from dawn to dusk so the memory of that short period of time stayed with me as more of a fun time than the slightly perilous time that it actually was. People are definitely a product of their upbringing in many ways but life shapes how we live it I think.
Cleaning day today and it begins around 9 as that seems to work very well for me. The top floor is the beginning as that is where the vacuum is. I am still using the shop vac and it works very well; actually the suction is great but it does sound like a rocket taking off for sure. The morning will mostly complete it and I will have some time to work on the matches and other projects. I have a meeting at 1 which I will try to remember; I have written a note to myself.
I am more than 2/3rds of the way through Chromosome 1 matches. Possibly there will be just around 200 matches for this chromosome when I have completed this review. Then Chromosome 23 still to do just for a cleanup as there are 96 there and some are quite small - generally I can work them into grandparent readily especially with two of us so clearly separated into one with an entire Buller length and mine which is 60% Buller and 40% Pincombe with just the one crossover point. The other three are more varied but also easily work into their result. Cleaning that file up will be handy when I move to the great grandparents. The Pincombe comes intact from my great grandmother Grace Gray (blended Routledge/Gray) to my paternal grandfather and then to my mother who blends it with Buller or doesn't as it turns out as it came intact to one of my brothers; the Rawlings comes intact from my Paternal Grandmother Ada Bessie Cotteril Rawlings (aka Edith Bessie (Taylor) Blake) to my father who then passes it to his daughters (it is a mixture of Rawlings and the unknown Cotterill it would appear to my mind still; having Cotterell already in the family with two repeats in the cousin lines at the 4x level and 2x level does lead one to be cautious in how one regards the matches (however there are a number of Rawlings matches in the Chromosome file). It may never be solved; who knows but I am feeling less like I am intruding on my grandmother's life (she was very happy in her Taylor family and grew up with her mother as her mother and her three half siblings as her siblings and especially the bond with her step father was very strong - nice that all of that passed to me as a child from my grandfather) which I didn't want to do but life doesn't always flow the way you think it might. Buller is a mixture of Welch coming from my 2x great grandmother Anne (Welch) Buller who passed a blended (Welch/Cheatle chromosome) to my great grandfather Edwin Denner Buller who passed it unchanged to my maternal grandmother Ellen (Buller) Pincombe and the other part of the Buller passed by Ellen to her daughter Helen (Pincombe) Blake is mixed with Taylor passed to Ellen (Taylor) Buller from her father Samuel Taylor and her mother Ellen (Roberts) Taylor. I must check all of that but the gist is that the chromosome passed from a father to a daughter comes directly from that paternal grandmother without change whereas the chromosome passed from a mother to her child is blended but in significant way which gives matches with a 3x great grandmother of a good length on occasion as I can see the 23rd chromosome portions from Sarah (Cheatle) Welch in my 3rd cousins where our 2x great grandmothers were twins as rather a good length in that Buller line as they are in the Withers line. Interesting really all of this chromosome passing. So one can see the necessity of maintaining this 23rd chromosome as well although it is not used by all of the testing companies in their matching.
Tea completed and solitaire puzzles to do. November all completed and December begins. A very orderly brain workout each day as it begins.
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