Category: Empowerment
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History is Told by the Victors
While wandering Europe for more than 2 months, one truth echoes over and over – history is told by the victors. The victors are usually those who had the best war machines and/or population to outlast the identified ‘enemy.’ That enemy often was of a different religion, tribe or simply, they occupied the land others…
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The Pilgrim’s Badge
Pilgrim’s badge. During the Middle Ages, graves rarely contained real treasure. However sometimes a cockleshell from the tomb of St James or the Mount of St Michel was discovered. Proof of piety. I began carrying cockleshells in my pockets long ago. I find them in my suitcases and in old, forgotten handbags. Piety is not…
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Memorial Day
If you are from New England, Memorial Day is for grave visiting. A time to remember those who have pasted, those who were lost, sharing lore and planting pansies or geraniums. In the oldest, colonial cemetery on Cape Cod, my 8th great-grandmother Mercy Worden is buried. She is surrounded by family, my other great-grandparents Kenelm,…
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This is Us
I didn’t know I was a Pilgrim’s granddaughter. The story I had been raised on was ‘you better depend on yourself, because you can’t depend on anyone else. you are alone…’ That was my mother’s story. The one she repeated a 1000 times in every way. Her father arrived from Ireland two weeks before the…
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Welcome to my Blog
Thank you for joining me on a Discovery of the Heart. With poetry, essays and tall tales, we shall unlock what has been Lost. Nourish the Heart into Found, Again. It had to be Provincetown.Drawn here by the Sea. Washed ashore from a storm of my own making. Missing a part of Me. And like…
The Pilgrim's Granddaughter 