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At the bottom on the left is an alphabetical list of the pages in this web site, to help you navigate if you feel so inclined. A guide to our family journal from 2008 on is here. A guide to the photo album covering 1994-2007 is here. A guide to our family time-line is here.
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Welcome to Zinzins.Net!!! Bienvenue chez nous !!
Nous sommes les zinzins de California, reconnus par l'Etat !!! Here we are: the Stock Brun Berhaut family,
This is a rare photo, all eight of us together. On Mother's Day in May 2006, all of the children accepted the parents' invitation to defer their pressing social obligations and brunch with us at Seascape Resort in Aptos, one of Santa Cruz's local hidden treasures. A tourist who had been admiring the view took this one, and we greatly appreciate her results. It's not perfect, of course, but we had all eaten well and were on a relaxing after-brunch stroll down to the beach. * * * Our most recent pictures can be found from here and here. * * * We are a his, hers and theirs family, what they call blended. Charles and Alex, in the back row and 10 and 8 at the time of the above photo, are our joint efforts. Alban (16 in the picture) and Daphné (18), both on our left in the photo, are hers, and Nick (19) and Tom (16), on either side of their dad, are his. The collective makes up our big, noisy whirlwind of energy. At times we are more agitated or churned up than blended, and at other times we're blended smooth as silk. It's all in the pictures!
This website is in three parts: First, a family photo album covering the first almost fourteen years in our collective lives, from 1994 through the end of 2007. It is a tapestry, a portrait of these years arranged by people and themes; Second, a family journal beginning in 2008 and again based on our photos. The difference is that we'll just keep it going chronologically year by year, rather than trying to organize our reminiscences by themes which themselves span years; and Third, tying the rest together, a summary of each year in our family history from 1994 to the present, our own little "Carousel of Time."
And congratulations!!! You have arrived at one of the least visited sites on the entire Internet!
Sites like ours are proof that Bob Dylan saw the precursors to the Internet about forty years ago when he "Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin'." We're whispering here. We wish you well if you should stop by and browse for a while.
Anything you want to tell us, please write to ian@zinzins.net
LEGAL BUMPH!! Not complicated. This is our stuff, the photos, the writings, everything except links to the Web. Do not use any of it (other than for non-commercial or educational purposes) without our prior written permission!!. This means YOU!! |
