I was talking to an old local from our village yesterday. He mentioned that he’d scratched his name on a tree 6 decades ago.
It’s still there.
As an amateur genealogist, I’m only too aware that we only know our ancestors from the lasting traces they choose to leave behind.
If I leave no trace behind in this fleeting world what then could you reproach? Kara o dani ukiyo no naka ni todo mezuba izuko o haka to kimi wo uramin Genji Monogatari (The Tale Of Genji) by Murasaki Shikibu (c.978 – c.1014)
We are making ourselves known to the future. Is this how we want to be represented?
