I have been having so much fun over the past few months on ancestry...some lines go back over 300 years. I'm so impressed at the digging many of my distant relatives have done. I wanted to document my favorite women's names from long ago:
From my paternal line:
Deliverance (1695-1762) Massachusetts
Elizabeth (1636-1691) Massachusetts
Sigurbjorg (N.D.) Iceland
Briet (N.D.) Iceland
From my maternal line:
Elizabeth (1772-184) Virginia/Kentucky
Elizabeth (1783-1835) Illinois
Elizabeth (1861-1943) England/Los Angeles
Maren (1793-1848) Denmark
Engliche (1683-1746) Denmark
What's in a name?
Monday, May 27, 2013
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Gordon Preston
THE OCEAN
has always
spoken to me
sometimes just blue
sharp as a thorn
and sometimes cold
like a human
and down
from the sea cliff there are no strangers to her sound all animals know
waves
dance their way to the shore in shouts at high tide and dreamlike at low
when night comes in
its darkening face climbs the horizon
and the poor bones
of driftwood wait to rise as peaceful smoke from a fire ring
to a heaven
trailing like a veil
between us
—from Rattle #21, Summer 2004
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