The Beginning
October 29, 2024, Hi Ember, I'm starting this letter on the 29th with no idea when it will be published. Or for that matter when you will or if you will ever read it. this was your Great Grandmother Waddington's Avocado tree The first unknown is due entirely to the steady stream of storms battering the Philippines that keep cutting our electricity and web connection. The second is because your mother, for her own undoubtedly good reasons has chosen to make you an unknown to me. So, as a way to introduce myself; here's a story that involves your mother when she was about 1 and 1/2 years old, your great-great-grandmother Hamilton, a stick and Ivory Island Light Station. A LITTLE HISTORY Not too long after grandmother Elly and I married I walked into the Hudson Bay store in Prince Rupert where she was working. She took one look at me and said 'What have you done now?!'. Ivory Island What I had done was applied to be the junior lightkeeper on Ivory Island. Give o
