From Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (Regarding the Russian Revolution):

From Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (Regarding the Russian Revolution):
".....If you charged someone with the task of creating a new world, of starting a new era, he would ask you first to clear the ground. He would wait for the old centuries to finish before undertaking to build the new ones, he'd want to begin a new paragraph, a new page.

"But here, they don't bother with anything like that. This new thing, this marvel of history, this revelation, is exploded right into the very thick of daily life without the slightest consideration for its course. It doesn't start at the beginning, it starts in the middle, without any schedule, on the first weekday that comes along, while the traffic in the street is at its height....."
They cut down the trees, they burned them, they even pulled up a few stumps. The roots, they were simply buried too deep...They are coming back to the surface now, springing forth new life, in the spectacular green of early spring....Strider

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

How Time Passes

As yet another harbinger of how quickly time passes, I've just realized, upon opening this blog to check on some forgotten statistic, that its been over ten years since I've posted. My time has been devoted to more genealogy research, which has allowed me to connect with an increasing number of lost relatives, after which I wrote and published a history of my family and a related pictorial magazine. Since retirement five years ago, I've been writing a fictional narrative of the village of Rohrbach and what came afterwards, which seems to be taking forever.

My thanks to all who have read and posted to this blog. It comes as no surprise that the currents of history have impacted many families in a similar manner to mine.

Based on my ongoing research, I find that some of these posts require clarification or correction, which I hope to complete in the coming months.
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