Journal | Jotting
Ancestry
A handwritten note was found in a book yesterday, Sunday, 20 November 2022.
It reads:
To all my ancestors, I speak to you now. You stretch back to the beginning of time, to the beginning of humankind. There are thousands and thousands of you uncountable and yet each of you as real and as alive in spirit and soul as I am now, here, this minute, 8:41 pm Thursday, June 25, 2020.
Unlike me, you can see ahead of me.
Unlike me every one of you can see the way, way, way back into the past - each now very aware of the other - and there are good and bad and indifferent amongst you. Of course. This is always so. I cannot judge.
But what I do ask is that you help me to grasp the sense of oneness, this reality, this awareness of you all.
Never in my life have I had - as they are now clearly constituted - this understanding of my past and my awareness of you all. I wish I could know all of you individually. But I suspect that is a dangerous desire.
But I do want to learn. To be of help and of use in what is left in this present timeline - my present journey, just one of many lifetimes.
It is signed off Ken .T. Webb
Jotting
We all do this, then forget, then stumble across … even better, though, are stumbling across such jottings by family, long since departed, during archival research.
The very sinews and fibres of our timelines.
Doodling, or Playing Around when I’m supposed to be working … we all do this too!
21 November 2022
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© Kenneth Thomas Webb 2022
Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.
He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.
Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.
In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.
