I read constantly. Cozy Mysteries, history, science, essays, whatever gets my attention. I have a notebook where I write what strikes me as something to remember. Sometimes the remarks are quick and apply to daily life; sometimes they are more thought provoking and apply to one of my favorite pastimes.
Here is the one at the end of the Family History Book I am writing for my brothers. After 10 years, I'm still working on it, so thought I would go ahead and put this here.
from
"How Green Was My Valley" by Richard Llewellyn:
"I
saw behind me those who had gone, and before me those who are to come. I looked back and saw my father, and his
father, and all our fathers, and in front to see my son, and his son, and the
sons upon sons beyond. And their eyes
were my eyes.
As
I felt, so they had felt and were to feel, as then, so now, as tomorrow and
forever. Then I was not afraid, for I
was in a long line that had no beginning and no end, and the hand of his father
grasped my father's hand, and his hand was in mine, and my unborn son took my
right hand, and all, up and down the line that stretched from Time That Was to
Time That Is, and Is Not Yet, raised their hands to show the link, and we found
that we were one, born of Woman, Son of Man, made in the Image, fashioned in
the Womb by the Will of God, the Eternal Father."
The past is a blueprint of the future, and anyone who thinks he can find the road ahead without reference to the way we came by, deceives himself.
R D Symons
Silton Seasons
