And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
My question is why did they use grandmother instead of the more generic grandparent? Everyone had to have them in pairs. That's how it works at least until most recently when the genders exploded beyond the only two that actually work to continue the species.
There is a female trait, an identifiable difference that passes from mother to daughter, I think they can go back that far with that one identifiable piece.
I have the lineage of one portion of my family back to the 12th Century in France, including the time when the first ones of the family landed in New France (Quebec) in 1635. Another part of the family back to the 1700s. Really sobering and humbling when you read when and what they accomplished.
A perfectly cromulent perspective.
ReplyDeleteNo grandfathers?
ReplyDeleteWe see that a lot today with some cultures.
DeleteMy question is why did they use grandmother instead of the more generic grandparent? Everyone had to have them in pairs. That's how it works at least until most recently when the genders exploded beyond the only two that actually work to continue the species.
ReplyDeleteMama's baby, Daddy's? Maybe.
DeleteThere is a female trait, an identifiable difference that passes from mother to daughter, I think they can go back that far with that one identifiable piece.
DeleteI have the lineage of one portion of my family back to the 12th Century in France, including the time when the first ones of the family landed in New France (Quebec) in 1635. Another part of the family back to the 1700s.
ReplyDeleteReally sobering and humbling when you read when and what they accomplished.
Big mistake on the pyramids thing. My ancestor had already helped build New Grange tomb.
ReplyDeleteWell, being pure Finn, depends what grandmothers you're talking about.
ReplyDeleteMy Sami grandmothers were still hunter-gatherers up until 5 or 6 generations ago...