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MAPPING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY: Part One
One of the best ways to understand our ancestors’ world is to get a bird’s eye view of it using maps. In this way we can feel directly connected to our personal history as well as the history of our place on the planet.
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Litany by the Sea
In an abundant woodOf Queen Anne’s lacedried and brown like bamboo,the ant scurries its way over fallenbramble and raspberry thorn,twisted California poppy blooming orange.As I lay there, intertwinedlistening,I hear an old manwith an ancient smilein simple language say –“Every step is a Prayer.” 1 Every feather in a wingevery sail set to seathread woven as clothhorn […]
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The Abnormal Is Not Courage…
I love this poem, for so many reasons, but mainly because it fortifies the heart and strengthens resolve. The Abnormal Is Not Courage… poem by Jack Gilbert, Monolithos The Poles rode out from Warsaw against the GermanTanks on horses. Rode knowing, in sunlight, with sabers,A magnitude of beauty that allows me no peace.And yet this poem would […]
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