Today is January 6th, the last day of Christmas according to an old tradition «Times will come. Times will go. Families will follow in the steps of the families before them...» In Scandinavia the words to this traditional Christmas song are not very religious. They were written in 1850 by a poet who was deeply shaken by a recent battle between Dennark and Schleswig-Holstein. But he called the song Deilig er jorden (Gorgeous is The Earth). This melody was sung in my house when I was a child. I can still feel the voice of my father, my uncle and my grandmothers singing it in our house. People who are now «the families before».