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Me Musing .
. . March
26,
2007
Amazingly wonderful
the response I have had to my last 'musing'!
I especially
loved this one from my friend Kenzan:
"I think that syncronicity is your job
on this planet! Going backwards often leads to going forward ~ then
being in the present makes more sense."
The synchronicities
continue to 'roll on'.
One of the
gals in the Reeb forum group, a schoolteacher in Canton, Ohio wrote
and said she was a student teacher in Miss Kohler's Sophomore Home
Economics class in 1964 in Hilliard!!!!!! I was a senior that year,
so we walked the same halls. If you recall I wrote about some experiences
in Home Ec class in my January
20th musing.
In going through
old photos I had to laugh . . . and if you want to test out Kenzan's
theory, dig out some photos of you as a child 'playing' and see
how they relate to your life in the years between then and now.
Mine were quite interesting.
Cooking,
dancing, music, modeling
clothes (that both Mother and I made for me)
. . .
(Don't
you just love the white socks with flats
as it was before the time of panty hose!)
led to . . .
MORE
. . . cooking, dancing*, music, modeling
* You've
read about the dancing on my 60th
birthday dance celebration musing of Feb. 8th!
Remember the
family photos from Grandma's album?? Well, I have now been able
to figure out more of the relationships. Some I had placed the children
with the wrong parents (easy to do
when there are soooooooooo many Jacob, Charles, Henry, Catherine,
Edward names!). After
more research, I think I have most of them with the right families,
so they can 'rest in peace' easier now.
And speaking
of names . . . the question was asked by one of the Reeb forum group
. . . where did your name Che'usa come from and what does it mean????
I began to
write about this and realized it would take a whole other 'musing',
so will post it in a day or so or it will take you all afternoon
to read this!
In doing the
research on relationships in the photo album, I decided to explore
our 'famous while we were growing up' ancestor:
George Balser Hess.
We had been
told that he was in the boat with George Washington when they crossed
the Delaware. (I have since learned
that they actually were retreating) . . . and am sure that
it was Balser who yelled, "get in the boat men"!!!!!!!
. . . or words to that effect . . . as over the years I have often
been told I am good at organizational skills (aka: issuing orders!).
I also found
an article from May, 2006 in the Columbus Dispatch that said that
on June 11th 2006 (last year!), the Union Cemetery was preparing
to celebrate their bicentennail and were looking for Hess descendants
to be there for the big celebration. (It was Balser Hess's farmland
where he was buried in 1806, that became a resting place for other
family members, neighbors, then later was bought by a group to establish
Union Cemetery which, according to the article, now houses 70,000
graves!
Yikes! What
is it with this?????? I leave Hilliard, a town of 5,000 people and
all of a sudden there are 60,000 people there. Balser quietly gets
buried on his own land and now there are over 70,000 people joining
him!!!!!!
Anyway, the
article said that as of May 16, 2006, no desdendants of the
Revolutionary War soldier could be found to invite them to participate
in the bicentennial.
Darn . . .
used to be a 'day late and dollar short' . . . this time
I was a year late!
I'm going to
leave this musing for now and jot off a note to the reporter and
the cemetery manager to let them know 'yes there are Hess
descendants alive and well' . . . and hope I don't have to wait
another 100 years for another celebration . . . if so . . . I'll
just have to keep doing MORE
. . . cooking, dancing, music, modeling of clothes I make .
. . until
then.
As I walked
into 'the Bowl Room' this morning I saw a quote from Franz Kafka
that I had found years ago:
"You
do not need to leave your room.
Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Do not even listen; simply wait.
Do not even wait; be quite still and solitary.
The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked;
It has no choice;
It will roll in ecstasy at your feet"!!!!
Roll
on . . . I'm in ecstasy!
Until
soon,
Che'usa
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