Saturday, September 17, 2011
That's a great story !
I have had an inspiration ! I love the feeling of achievement, the natural "high" if you will, of discovering something new about my family. It is that moment when all that digging through endless websites or documents pays off and everything clicks into place. It is a moment that is hard to describe unless you have had a moment of equal experience.
I have always believed that the universe delivers the opportunity when the time is right and the stars must be in line ! I recently put out a call for submissions for a book plan that I am putting together that will share the type of achievements that I mentioned above, only instead of writing ad nausea about my own family stories I will be sharing some FANTASTIC stories from many other people about the uniqueness of their family journey. As the stories come in I am fascinated by the diversity of human experience on our globe and through the adversity and challenges of past generations have come a new version of our history. It is not that we necessarily live in a "better" time in history although with the technological advances we definitely live an easier life than our ancestors were able to. We still struggle with power and right-ness and the need to put ourselves before everyone else. We seem to have lost the humble roots and the ability to express ourselves with poignant insights through the ever expanding wealth of knowledge that we have access to. Have we adapted from or have we crushed our connection to the past?
I recently sat down to enter what information my husband had about his family, partly to capture his interest in what I do and partly to help myself to understand this list of names that had no faces and no stories for me. In the course of one weekend I put his family back into the 1600's on 3 continents. Swiss/German, Swedish, Scottish and French Canadian. In the course of 3 generations or approximately 180 years they had come together from all those areas to two parents that begat my husband. What are the chances of that happening, so many variables could have changed everything and often does through wars and human struggles.
I think of so many stories that I have discovered and are locked in my own experience but which can inspire others to be aware of the family's stories before they are lost from the telling. Stay tuned as the book unfolds...
I have always believed that the universe delivers the opportunity when the time is right and the stars must be in line ! I recently put out a call for submissions for a book plan that I am putting together that will share the type of achievements that I mentioned above, only instead of writing ad nausea about my own family stories I will be sharing some FANTASTIC stories from many other people about the uniqueness of their family journey. As the stories come in I am fascinated by the diversity of human experience on our globe and through the adversity and challenges of past generations have come a new version of our history. It is not that we necessarily live in a "better" time in history although with the technological advances we definitely live an easier life than our ancestors were able to. We still struggle with power and right-ness and the need to put ourselves before everyone else. We seem to have lost the humble roots and the ability to express ourselves with poignant insights through the ever expanding wealth of knowledge that we have access to. Have we adapted from or have we crushed our connection to the past?
I recently sat down to enter what information my husband had about his family, partly to capture his interest in what I do and partly to help myself to understand this list of names that had no faces and no stories for me. In the course of one weekend I put his family back into the 1600's on 3 continents. Swiss/German, Swedish, Scottish and French Canadian. In the course of 3 generations or approximately 180 years they had come together from all those areas to two parents that begat my husband. What are the chances of that happening, so many variables could have changed everything and often does through wars and human struggles.
I think of so many stories that I have discovered and are locked in my own experience but which can inspire others to be aware of the family's stories before they are lost from the telling. Stay tuned as the book unfolds...
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