07-28-2008, 10:37 PM
Moon Child, ain't nothing like stirring the pot! As the Chinese proverb says 'may you have an interesting life'.
I find genealogy kind of interesting. I did it for many years and found out a few interesting things about my dad's side. Like my grandmother and grandfather (who married each other) were both adopted. She got all riled up and insisted I quit digging.
I think many, many things are unwritten because of 'taboos' or 'skeletons in the closet' type thing. Things that now seem kind of silly, but back then made the difference between surviving and not surviving. Each era has it's own difficulties.
I really feel there are bloodlines in my family that were hushed up eons ago to avoid 'delicate situations'. Gets interesting when you see what people had to work with back then and how they dealt with it -- which was the best way they could back then. Sometimes I wish I knew for sure who was where and what happened; and who belonged to whom.
Many people had no idea that the person that brought them up wasn't their real parents or even related. Many children were given away to others to take in when their families died. So I imagine things were no different with all the plagues, disease outbreaks and wars going on in history.
Sometimes I wonder if it even matters, that we should work off ancestral karma best we can and keep going.
I find genealogy kind of interesting. I did it for many years and found out a few interesting things about my dad's side. Like my grandmother and grandfather (who married each other) were both adopted. She got all riled up and insisted I quit digging.
I think many, many things are unwritten because of 'taboos' or 'skeletons in the closet' type thing. Things that now seem kind of silly, but back then made the difference between surviving and not surviving. Each era has it's own difficulties.
I really feel there are bloodlines in my family that were hushed up eons ago to avoid 'delicate situations'. Gets interesting when you see what people had to work with back then and how they dealt with it -- which was the best way they could back then. Sometimes I wish I knew for sure who was where and what happened; and who belonged to whom.
Many people had no idea that the person that brought them up wasn't their real parents or even related. Many children were given away to others to take in when their families died. So I imagine things were no different with all the plagues, disease outbreaks and wars going on in history.
Sometimes I wonder if it even matters, that we should work off ancestral karma best we can and keep going.