Re: Wordsworm's comment in the first posting. Wordsworm is Steven Young, my younger son, who has some bitter feelings about not being accepted by my family because I was not married to his mother. A person can't help his feelings, and I am intimately familiar with those kinds of feelings, but I think it's very wrong to nurse a grievance. It doesn't hurt anyone more than yourself. We're all fallible, we all blunder through life as best we can, never knowing until it's too late what the consequences of our actions may be.
That's why it is good to know what challenges were faced by previous generations. A clean slate? Doesn't work. It isn't possible to learn everything you need to know to live a good life without heeding the lessons learned by our predecessors.
And that's what I like so much about this life story of Helen May Gervais. It's a humble story, but talk about courage in the face of adversity, I'm glad to say I come from the same stock that she did.
I hadn't thought of using this blog as a way of airing grievances, but every family has them, so maybe it's not a bad idea.
So without further ado, here is another instalment.
I don't feel overly bitter. I don't take it as personally as you might think. When I made the comment, I suppose I was trying to figure out why you have this interest in the past of your father's family.
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