Splashdown

The most wanted to hear words yesterday and there it was splashdown, crew all safe and well. Congratulations to NASA on this wonderful accomplishment. What an honour that a Canadian was one of the crew. The three Americans and one Canadian were a great team to watch on the television - they did great and thank you. The President has announced that Mars is next and more power to this project as well. It is wondrous to see this happening in my lifetime. I was a young child when Yuri Gagarin went into space and now old with this successful moon orbit - the greatest distance that Homo sapiens has ever been into the universe. I believe that mankind can and should keep trying to improve the world and to head out into the universe. It is all here; God made it all eons ago and it continues to evolve. God's hesitancy to permit us the knowledge of good and evil was to protect us but now He enjoys watching us do the right thing - He gave us commandments to live by and then sent His son Jesus to bring us the two commandments just to make it so much easier for us to understand - Love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength and love our neighbour as ourself. We could find peace then and our efforts to improve the world and explore the universe would be ever more effective. 

Worked on the Blake book yesterday and the first wills. They are a block of wills with Robert Blake's will the oldest and then wills of his sons - Richard, Robert and Thomas  - followed by the wills of his grandsons (there are a couple of wills by the wives of these men as well that are helpful). I did have this five generation chart coming down from Robert on World Connect but it has been gone now for awhile. Fortunately I retained it and perhaps will add it to my website at some point. 

I am also back to my Latin studies after a bit of an hiatus as I moved from Duolingo (which was excellent but tended towards modernism) and I need the Latin from the Roman times to really help me to read all of these wills thoroughly. So Mango Languages is now my tool to improve the Latin I have already learned. Although it would have been nice to study Latin in my youth I preferred to train in Business Practice (since I had to choose) so that I would have a skill for my summer jobs when I was working in my teen years (I was only twelve when I went to High School so pretty young for sure but I did have thoughts on how to survive since my father had been through a bankruptcy when I was a child). It was most beneficial my business training as I worked at that type of thing for several years until I worked using my Chemistry background in the hospital laboratory in my late teens. But the skills of Business Practice which included typing and book keeping have stood me in good stead all of my life. Children in school need to have a good variety of skills learned during their years of study - the future is hard to predict really I think in terms of training up the children of the future. They must have excellent managerial skills though - all of them whether they are going into trades, business or other fields. Streaming children at a young age is I think inappropriate. Don't permit time to be wasted in the classroom; the children are there to learn skills and acquire knowledge. They need to learn as much about the many subjects as they can; as many skills as they are able to learn and utilize to prepare them for a world that will be different. 

 Nothing new learned from reading the will of Robert in the Latin as I have not done that for awhile. I am doing a word by word translation now and not that different from what I did earlier; my transcription is just smoother that is all. Good for the brain to do language studies I think. Keeps the brain cells active and busy. 

Drinking tea and must do my solitaire puzzles - they are a real brain wake up for sure. I do excellent first just for the challenge of jumping right in to do the hardest thing.