Comment #4271

2017-10-08T23:29:15Z

Yeah, I think he's pretty wonderful, too.

It's true of all my projects, but naturally genealogy was what I thought of first as my "painting." Here's are the lines that haunt me:

"Yet he was beginning to see that he could not put off his start indefinitely. The picture would have to stop just growing and get finished," and

"He could only just get the picture finished, and only so so, at that: there were some corners where he would not have time now to do more than hint at what he wanted," and

"Not finished?" said the Driver. "Well, it's finished with, as far as you're concerned, at any rate."

My genealogy work is still expanding, a lot—but my focus is different. For years I've blissfully tacked one more thing after another onto the the painting and enlarged my shed, but now I work with a view towards where it will "end." I know, genealogy research never ends; but there will come a day when it will be "finished with, as far as I'm concerned, at any rate." So I'm working on trimming, and finding places to draw the line, in hopes of getting something useful "out there."

Comment #4270

2017-10-08T13:02:19Z

Very much like I have been feeling this week as I try to work on my genealogy. Luckily I married a wonderful man!

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