I just finished reading a book called "Chief YellowHorse Lives On!" written by Lisa Schnebly Heidinger. It is a book that would mostly appeal to residents of Arizona. Sedona Schnebly was Lisa's great-grandmother and the town of Sedona, Az was named for her. Her husband ran the Post Office and they needed a short and unique name for the place.

Three weeks ago Anita & I were in Sedona, one of the most beautiful places in AZ. I know Mom (Martha) visited there a few years back during one of her elder hostel classes. I would like to quote from the chapter written about Sedona the woman.

"When I speak at schools about Sedona, I tell the students that when she was their age, she would have had no reason to believe anyone would ever want to know about her life. She left no journals. The closest I can get to her is to walk down to the creek where she did her laundry and try to picture her there on the bank, which is now part of Los Abrigados Resort, and see what she saw (some of the same trees, I know.)

Then I say that, someday, we will all be ancestors, either through our children or those of relatives, and someone may be very interested in us.

So write things down. Maybe no one will name a town after you, but your great-grandchild may be curious about you as I am about my forebears. A journal from any one of them would be priceless beyond measure. It doesn't have to be a novel. A page, or a paragraph, would be more than I have from Sedona.

Run off a few emails you've sent. Print out a letter you've saved in a correspondence file. Stick a note in your Bible. If we can learn from the past, it is to record the present. For in the future someone will find it fascinating."

So for me that is what the Blog is all about. Just a bunch of notes.

Next time I will tell you about how lost Anita can really get.