52 Ancestors 2023 Week 25: Fast
I am really skipping around the topics! Some didn't feel too inspiring to me and others I just didn't have anything to say ("So Many Descendants" did not really apply to any recent generations: we are not prolific people. "Last One Standing" just seemed a little grim and besides there was no one who sprang to mind!). But "Fast. Hmmm. We have a video of our older granddaughter at about 2-1/2 running around our house and announcing "I so fast Grandpa! Fast!" I ran in track in high school but I don't think anyone thought I was particularly fast, especially the timers. Fast can also apply to the passage of time and events and I think that is what I will meditate on this time. My Grandma Grace Belknap was born in 1895 and died in 1969. A lot changed, very quickly, during her lifetime, and a lot happened for good and ill. A very brief list: The Wright Brothers flew an airplane for the first time. By the ...