Year: 2022
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Grandchildren
I have two granddaughters, one is 4 months old today, the other is 2 and-a-half years old. The older one stayed with us this weekend. She loves going to the playground in the park, and especially enjoys the swings:
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100th Anniversary
in: Event
May 20th is the 100th anniversary of my paternal grandparentâs wedding. As a point-in-time image, it carries for me the feel of an August Sander photograph, marking a record of a family and generational differences that portray change. The family had lived in Sonneberg and the area for generations, but four days later the dispersion…
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Arrival
in: Event
100 years ago today, my maternal grandfather arrived on the Canadian Pacific Railwayâs ship âMontcalmâ in Quebec City, from Czecho-Slovakia, via Hamburg Germany and Liverpool England, enroute to Brooklyn New York, where his family had moved after the demise of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A few months earlier he had been released from a Russian Prisoner…
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Halliburton
This week we took our first âvacationâ in over 26 months, to Halliburton, a couple hours north of where we live. A tentative step.
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Freedom Isn’t Delivered in a Tank
in: Observation
Putinâs intervention to wrestle Ukraine away from Nazism is underway. After a month, the general consensus of opinion is that Putinâs military ambitions are not going to plan. However, history suggests otherwise. As seen in Chechenia, Syria and even 1943 Stalingrad, the levelling of cities, and the deliberate murder of thousands of civilians is part…