Something I've Realized About North America

I just found out that the post with all my great finished projects can't be done because Blogger is not accepting uploads of photos at this time. So I went away and sat listening to CBC radio (my favorite morning passtime) while waiting for things to change. The Current was talking to the new mayor of Calgary and it was really quite interesting.  In my old age I seem to be becoming quite political.....

But if I put that out of my mind and think about the real issue at hand I've discovered something that I'm having a bit of a head scramble over. 

I grew up in Newfoundland..... (I think I might have mentioned that before)... my mother and father both grew up in Newfoundland...... Teapot grew up in Newfoundland and his mother and father grew up there too. What's more is that I can go back 15 generations..... they all grew up in Newfoundland..... before that... before the mid 1500s they grew up in England. That's not normal for most of the people here in Canada. I know.... Newfoundland is part of Canada but only since 1949... and though I'm a first generation Canadian, I'm actually a 16th generation North American.

It's weird to hear people talking about their families... mostly because they think of themselves as old families to Canada and maybe they only came here three generations ago. I'm having a really hard time wrapping my head around that one. My family has been around a lot longer than most... but my parents were British subjects and actually still have their British passports. We had our own money too. Newfoundland is actually very very old while being really really new.

I like the fact that I'm getting a new understanding of Canadians. Even though I was born Canadian... and I feel Canadian.... I'm realizing that the Newfoundland understanding of Canadian is just a little strange.... or at least it is for me.

I'm not really sure what I'm saying... it is still a formulating idea.... I'll get back to you all about this as it gets clearer to me.

Meanwhile Blogger still is not accepting my pictures so I'll wait another little bit before posting about my finished projects....