
I’ve chosen Ancestor as my A-word.
Many of you know I’ve been dealing with some family issues since my mother broke her hip. She’s moved into a nursing home (for lack of a better word) and I’ve been clearing out her home. Sometimes I just sit and look at pictures I didn’t know she had and read notes and letters to her from family, and people I don’t know. Every note sings her praises. I believe those notes because Mom was a nurse. A perfectionist. Someone who went far beyond the call of duty. Being a caregiver is who she was/is deep down in her heart and soul.

Is there a writer somewhere in my lineage that I haven’t found yet? I’m searching. I would love to find a connection to an author—s/he doesn’t even have to be famous!

I appreciate the complexity of genetics but oh, how I wish it were simpler.
Take a look at these interesting quotes. I love them, don’t you? Especially the first two!
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended but the glory belongs to our ancestors. ~Plutarch
No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
~William Faulkner
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your thoughts? I absolutely love comments!