Last year, friends visited us in Eastern North Carolina. While staying with us they were practicing their string figures like Cat’s Cradle. My friend teaches a parent-child class at a Waldorf school. So, it makes sense that they would be exploring such a subtle art form. When I watched them, something stirred in me from … Continue reading
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Becoming skilled at southern…
I moved to Louisville, Mississippi…to the red clay hills of Central, Eastern Mississippi when I was 11 years old. My mom was born there, above the Strand Theater, like so many others from that town. Later I would realize that I was 7th generation Louisville, Mississippi on my mother’s side. My mom left Louisville at … Continue reading
Tracing the Family Lines, Crowell
As some of you know, I’ve been walking the lines of my ancestry for some time, now. Last year, through Ancestry, I connected with a distant Crowell relative of Charlotte, NC about our mutual ancestor, Simon Crowell. Simon is my 6th G Grandfather, buried in Indian Trail, NC in Union County, NC which is right … Continue reading
Interview with Herb Rally
I hope everyone is doing well out there. The Earth is still a spinning jewel. The sun is still shining. The moon is doing her waxing and waning dance. But, humans seem to be growing more and more confused. It least, it seems that way in modern society. I have been quiet on my blog. … Continue reading
Giving Her a Name
Some of you know that I enjoy genealogy. Fewer of you know that I do lineage repair work. Even fewer of you know that I got into DNA based genealogy to find out who my unnamed GG grandmother was on my mother’s side. What started with being hushed by my Great Aunt almost 10 years ago, ended … Continue reading
Onion skin dyed Easter/Eostre Eggs
“Old English Eōstre continues into modern English as Easter and derives from Proto-Germanic *austrōn, itself a descendant of the Proto-Indo-European root *aus-, meaning ‘to shine’ (modern English east also derives from this root).[3] Writing in the 8th century, the Anglo-Saxon monk Bede describes Ēostre as the name of an Old English goddess and behind the … Continue reading
Wondering Why We Left
About six months ago, after about a full year of a very deep dive into my family’s genealogy…tracing many of my maternal lines back to America’s early colonies…I began to ponder on why these people left. Why did so many British, Scottish, and Irish peasants leave their homeland…risk their lives…to arrive in an unknown and … Continue reading
Southern New Years Tradition: Hoppin’ John, Greens & Cornbread
I appreciate how my mother gently reminds me each year of our family’s (well, and many, many other Southern folk’s) tradition of eating black eyed peas, cornbread, and boiled greens on new year’s day. This meal is eaten to bring luck, prosperity, and health! Pork is used in the black eyed peas/hoppin’ john dish and … Continue reading
Stitching Together Memories
My great grandma Ora (born in the year 1900), of the red clay hills in Mississippi, was an impeccable seamstress and skilled in hand-sewing quilts. As far as I know, she never used a sewing machine or, at least, she never did on her quilts. With her legacy of quilt making in my family’s past, … Continue reading
The Ties That Bind Us, Can Also Free Us
For many years, I have been working on ancestral and lineage-based knots or wounds in my family line — opening up the channels of my ancestral energy to flow more freely. What I have noticed this past year is a heightened awareness of the importance of this in our personal lives and family constellations we … Continue reading
Lindsay Kolasa 