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Update 1/14/2012
Welcome to our latest Jamison Update
Greetings to all our family and friends this holiday season. We hope this letter finds you happy and healthy.
2011 passed by us in record speed! It seems like the older we get, the faster time flies. I have posted links to photos here of our family and most of our events. Please take a look when you get a chance. (The New Zealand links follow this message).
Some highlights this year were a two week holiday in Hawaii, including the Hawaiian Scottish Games, the Navy Nurse Corps Association reunion in Pensacola, some time in Southern France including a Mediterranean cruise, and Chuck's trip to New Zealand for a Clan Gunn/Maori dedication ceremony.
We also had road trips to Disneyland with two of our grand kids, to Oregon visiting friends, and to many Scottish Games in California. We intend to spend New Year's Eve in San Diego, where Chuck will play bagpipes on the USS Midway.
We thoroughly enjoyed our time on the Med cruise (MSC line: Genoa, Corsica, Rome, Vatican City, Pompeii, and Palma de Mallorca) and had a wonderful time in Beaucaire with Michel and Francoise and John and Ginny (Trix's cousins.)
While Chuck was in New Zealand, Trix had house guests from Chicago and Boston. They were all school friends in Massachusetts back in the day. They went to Yountville and San Francisco and had a great time re-connecting.
Chuck is Chief of the Caledonian Club of Sacramento, Treasurer of the St. Andrews Society, and Comissioner of Clan Gunn Northern California. He also stays busy drumming with the Irish pub band, Stout Rebellion and has just grown a beard again.
We wish you a very HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012.
Everything you ever wanted to know about Jameson Whiskey
I just returned from a couple of weeks with Clan Gunn in New Zealand. Most of the population there is connected to a Maori tribe as well as their European ancestors; a great deal of whom were Scots.
Since I am now associated with the Ngati Awa tribe in Whakatane, through my Clan Gunn association, I will share with you the traditional opening that Maoris use in all of their ceremonies.
First you mention your connection to the people, second you mention your connection to the land, third you mention your spiritual connection, and fourth you mention your individual connection.
Let me share with you the best wishes for the upcoming holidays. As you are all friends and family, I truly hope all of you will have good memories of your visits with friends, family, and maybe new acquaintances during the fall and winter celebrations. Since we live in the Sacramento area, our mountains are the Sierra Nevada, one of the most beautiful mountain ranges in the world, full of history and memories for us. Our rivers are the Sacramento and American Rivers. Their water provides life for us as well as beauty. It is our responsibility to do what we can to protect them. I believe that we are all connected by something greater than ourselves. Connected to the world we live in as well as to each other. Finally, my people came to this country from Ireland and before that from Scotland and probably from Norway before that. They moved over several generations from Pennsylvania to Kentucky to Indiana. My grandfather brought his family to California where my father was born as was I.
There you have it. I truly believe that if we remind ourselves of our connections now and then, we will be better able to make positive decisions about what is best for us, our families, and our world.
I truly do wish you all the best of Thanksgiving - remember that we all have much to be thankful for. Have a wonderful Christmas and New Year. Share the season and don’t let the spirit of it be diminished by the small frustrations of the day.
Yours aye, Chuck and Trix
Callie and Shamrock Club Christmas Party
SMUD Christmas Party
Rollingwood Christmas Party
Here are the photo links for New Zealand highlights:
Maori Ceremonies
Kerikeri
Rotarua and the Thermal lands
Auckland Harbor
Auckland Museum and One Tree Hill
Auckland Botanical Gardens
(Links to ALL the New Zealand photos are on the Clan Gunn NZ page)
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2011 Highland Games photo Links (will be on the Clan Gunn pages)
Photos from 2011, 2010, 2009, and the family albums
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