MEUNIER LEE on fri 3 sep 10
=3D0AThanks for sharing, Lee.=3DC2=3DA0 To which of your ancestral cultures=
do=3D0A=3D
you feel the greatest heart tug when you learn about them?=3DC2=3DA0 Seems=
=3D0Ayo=3D
u are a fellow mishmash of genetic material also.=3DC2=3DA0=3D0A=3D0A=3DC2=
=3DA0Frankly,=3D
I"m=3D0Apleased to learn about my mixed ancestry and find it exciting to=
=3D0Ac=3D
onsider the possibilities inherent... and how I've contributed to=3D0Apassi=
ng=3D
them on to granddaughter and her children!=3DC2=3DA0 It would be=3D0Aa bit=
much =3D
to bear to be a "pure" anything.=3DC2=3DA0 However, I'm still=3D0Asearching=
for t=3D
hat Scot who must be lurking, awaiting discovery=3D0Aas I hit the keys.=3D0=
A=3D0A=3D
I'm also longing to find an artist of some sort somewhere not=3D0Atoo deep =
in=3D
to my history.=3DC2=3DA0 Actually, there are many "artists" but=3D0Aall are=
actor=3D
s, writers, musicians, members=3DC2=3DA0of the performing arts.=3D0AAlas, n=
ot a S=3D
cot nor a visual artist amongst them............ so far.=3D0A=3D0AJoyce=3D0=
AIn th=3D
e Mojave desert of California U.S.A.=3D0A=3D0A=3D0AJoyce=3D0AIn the Mojave =
desert o=3D
f California U.S.A./=3D0A=3D0A=3D0A=3D0A=3D0A______________________________=
__=3D0AFrom:=3D
Lee Love =3D0ATo: MEUNIER LEE et=3D
>=3D0ACc: Clayart@lsv.ceramics.org=3D0ASent: Fri, September 3, 2010 11:11:5=
9 AM=3D
=3D0ASubject: Re: Pay Pal Issues=3D0A=3D0AOn Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:02 PM, =
MEUNIE=3D
R LEE wrote:=3D0A=3D0A> descendants of the scotties=
of =3D
Scotland....... I keep looking at=3D0A> ancestry.com hoping to prove the la=
st=3D
statement=3DC2=3DA0is true of=3DC2=3DA0my lineage=3D0A> also........ but, =
no, Irelan=3D
d and England are as far as I've gotten=3D0A> so far.....=3D0A=3D0AJoyce, (=
Off To=3D
pic)=3D0A=3DC2=3DA0 =3DC2=3DA0 =3DC2=3DA0 =3DC2=3DA0 =3DC2=3DA0 I've been r=
esearching Irish potte=3D
ry.=3DC2=3DA0 Apparently, it is=3D0Avery similar to the English and French =
potter=3D
y imported from those=3D0Aplaces.=3DC2=3DA0 My son and his girlfriend visit=
ed fro=3D
m Sacramento a couple=3D0Aweeks ago.=3DC2=3DA0 He gathered some boxes he ha=
d stor=3D
ed at various places of=3D0Aour stuff when we were in Japan.=3DC2=3DA0 One =
box wa=3D
s full of documents and=3D0Aphotos from my father's family.=3DC2=3DA0 My fa=
ther's=3D
father was born in Wolf=3D0ACreek Wisconsin (his father was from Ontario.)=
=3D
=3DC2=3DA0 What was the real=3D0Asurprise, that I saw on my grandfather's m=
arriag=3D
e certificate, was=3D0Athat his mother, Annie Gilmore came directly to Wisc=
on=3D
sin from=3D0AScotland.=3DC2=3DA0 It is particularly exciting, because I hav=
e been=3D
studying=3D0Athe history of the Knights Templars=3DC2=3DA0 and their possi=
ble es=3D
cape to=3D0AScotland (their cavalry may have helped Robert the Bruce defeat=
t=3D
he=3D0AEnglish and gain independence), and the Templars=3DC2=3DA0 possible =
connec=3D
tion=3D0Ato the creation of the freemasons.=3D0A--=3D0A=3DC2=3DA0Lee, a Mas=
hiko potte=3D
r in Minneapolis=3D0Ahttp://mingeisota.blogspot.com/=3D0A=3D0A=3DE2=3D80=3D=
9CObserve th=3D
e wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel=3D0Athe artistry=
m=3D
oving through and be silent.=3DE2=3D80=3D9D --Rumi=3D0A
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