Celebrate your deep roots in Thanksgiving!
To all our family on this special day,
Of course, every day and every moment is a privilege. We shouldn’t ever take things for granted. And, always, we should be thankful.
Today’s our special day for all of us to slow down enough to count our blessings.
Many of you know about our very simple, highly-integrated, mathematical model of the universe. It is all contained within just 202 doublings, steps, or notations. In that process I’ve begun to realize how everything we think, say or do impacts our little universe. If we can mathematically encode the universe in just 202 intimately-related steps, the universe may appear ginormous, but it isn’t. It is just that our understanding of space and time are limited.
Within the 13.8± billion years, the human family is but a speck of time within this universe. So, the evolution of our family, is yet a smaller speck. And each generation, yet smaller.
In 1621 the Pilgrims left from Plymouth, England on September 16 and made progress each day until they anchored on November 21. The Mayflower Compact was signed that day. The first Thanksgiving by the Pilgrims was celebrated shortly thereafter and in 1623 it became the first declaration of a holiday for them.
It is a good time to visit what was once called the Plimoth Plantation and is now called Plimoth Patuxet Museums.
The area was once known as Patuxet. Renaming the museum is more sensitive to the indigenous people who greeted the Pilgrims. Now some of you may think it is being a bit “woke” to rename the museum. I think this is an instance when it’s appropriate. We all should know more about Patuxet-Wampanoag-Massachusett (no “s”) history. It’s fun. Plus, it is good to know more and more about who we are and what the circumstances were in the life for our ancestors.
I often like to think of it as a Marblehead moment!
(Writing to the family… sister, brother, cousins, and more.)
Richard Warren, one of your many great-great… grandfathers, appears 12th in the list of signatures.
You can follow the progression within the family with the little summary that follows Marion Davis Ifill (pictured). Many of us knew her as Nana.
We all share her DNA. We all share Richard Warren’s DNA. And, we also share the DNA of Samuel Baker, John Howland, and William White. For several years I thought perhaps they were Mayflower. families. Apparently not.
We are only physically on this earth for a short time. Let us celebrate our days and live life to the fullest!
Happy Thanksgiving indeed.
With great love,
Bruce