Firstly I'd like to thank you John & Bruce for your "welcome to the
family", albeit delivered slightly differently.
Bruce; You sound like my late Dad - we never got on during our 20 years on this planet but
he taught me a great deal - far beyong my 'poultry' year 11 education. One of my
Dads greatest traits was his ability to digest & then teach from the information
he'd learned. From my experiences, even if he was in a bad mood, he would brighten up
heaps while he taught me what he'd learned....... he also taught me the phrase
"it's easy to be brave at a safe distance".
I didn't intentionally upset you, as I didn't intentionally reveal to the
Carpenter world my newbie status - I like to think I know a fair bit about history - damn
my transparency!
I don't believe in genetic behavioural hand-me-downs (so I'm happy to socialise
with Adolfs family tree!), but I get a bit moist in the tear duct when you go off, you
sound like some of the Carpenters in my family - male and female..... Stand by your
convictions Bruce, we're all believers.
We are who we are - somehow, someway, the same alien race who created our DNA and left us
on this world to propogate thousands of years ago shook appendages with your alien
creators. There I go again...sorry....I just watched Mission to Mars!! .....It's
amazing what some of us do with information.
Unfortunately some information is found out to be false - actually, we get more
information. Like my new information is that my Dad was a Baptist Sunday School teacher in
his younger years. That stunned me - I remember him as religiously indifferent and because
we came to Australia when I was six, I never saw any of the family or their religious
practises. Funny how things work out. That reminds me of something - Did you hear about
the dyslexic agnostic insomniac?
........He lies awake at night wondering if there really is a dog.
I'm actually far from being an atheist. I'm human like the rest of us and no
amount of stereotyping will drive me down - not even as far as that lowly Zimmerman,
Martha the Miserable Peasant. No matter the choices and beliefs - we all deserve each
other. Someone had to have created those aliens !!!
I do have something to say; I love all the fire and passion and the other good stuff that
makes us "carpenters", my two children have that attribute and when I marry
their mother next year she will have it too.........
Seriously folks, I'm happy to have stirred the emotions in all of us and got the
fence-sitters involved. I'm happy to say I learned and I hope you learned too.
...Now let's get back to business - I have a sneaky suspicion that my line of
Carpenters are of the CARPENTEROS - origins somewhere near the foothills of the Aracanguy
Mountains near San Pedro, Paraguay - but I have to see if I can get a bit more information
first...
Kind Regards to all,
Steve Carpenter & Family
b. B.M.H. Rinteln, W.Germany
Dad to the first "Arrente" Carpenter Pomorigines - Xena Sherrilee & Stephen
Jack
lived Cinderford, Weston-Under-Pennyard, Mitcheldean, Adelaide, Sydney...
"Trying to find my gggrandad's resting place so I can rest..."