MY FAMILY ROADSHOW

Puzzle Before Poole I have never enjoyed solving puzzles from a box. Many were placed before me; however, I scarcely remember  ‘putting those small pieces together to form something’ -  just didn’t fancy the activity ! The Genealogy Puzzle is an ‘unraveling’ - The foraging in a jungle -  Going through with a fine-tooth comb -  Making sure the factualness is indeed factual. This study of ‘dead people’ has a near-religious rightness about it.  I try to see records through the eyes of people who made them - the recorders;  as well as the people who are recorded.  It’s only a worm’s eye view of history ... but it’s a view.  ... and now ... on with the show! Julius Lincoln Poole My 2nd Cousin 3X Removed MY RELATIONSHIP Birth: April 8,1862 - Canyonville, Douglas County, Oregon PARENTS His Mother, Saraphine, was born in White County, Tennessee,  in 1844.  My line...

63 and ME - CAN WE BE FRIENDS? I find myself in this moment, in a happy place.  Positive energy and a peacefulness I haven’t felt in many, many days.   I have decided to be friends with “63” - better friends than enemies. Also, I will take full responsibility of this aging process (as much as God will allow) - and age with GRACE. Gratitude – being thankful, or feeling gratitude, is an essential part of acceptance and satisfaction … a kindness we allow for ourselves.  Resilence – accepting a weakness and then powering through it can be a struggle.  I’ve found that others in our life sometimes try to sabotage the “forgiveness” we allow for ourselves. A while back, I wrote a note to someone stating that ‘I had forgiven myself for …’. That person used my statement to enhance a hurt…the someone laughed and joked to others ‘she forgives herself? How do you forgive yourself if others haven’t forgiven you?’ Such garbage. I still believe we must all f...