The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep. Religion is for those who fear hell. Spirituality is for those who have been there. Where you confuse the dead and irritate the living. Every family tree has some sap in it.
Friends come and go, but relatives tend to accumulate.
Genealogists never die, they just lose their roots. A haystack full of needles. It's the threads I need. I think my family tree is a few branches short of full bloom. Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.