Mj Pettengill
Ancestral Healing: Where Does it Begin?
We continue to pass along the grief and pain of those before us, and in time, forget their origins. We inherit their losses.
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Mj Pettengill
Sep 24, 20205 min read
The Poor: Lending Their Secrets, Part 3
When we finally summon the courage to view our past, we may awaken from our troubled dreams.
Mj Pettengill
Sep 20, 20205 min read
I Screamed at God - (Excerpt)
I reached towards the wreckage of my whole existence.
Mj Pettengill
Sep 17, 20204 min read
The Poor: Lending Their Secrets, Part 2
The practice of auctioning the poor is a form of indentured servitude, a custom in this country that dates back to the first settlers...
Mj Pettengill
Sep 15, 20203 min read
Dare to Finish Last
You can be a strong force within yourself, family, and community without raising an angry fist.
Mj Pettengill
Sep 11, 20206 min read
The Poor: Lending Their Secrets, Part 1
Buried deep in the bones of the earth, in dusty, misplaced archives, and scribbled in faded, yellowed diaries, their stories exist.
Mj Pettengill
Sep 4, 20206 min read
Nellie: Upon the Bare Earth
There was light there, in the homeland of old stories, but not enough. I had been there too long.
Mj Pettengill
Sep 2, 20204 min read
Shoo Away the Ghosts: Simple Acknowledgment
Where was God when it happened?
Mj Pettengill
Aug 20, 20204 min read
Knowing How to See: Reclaiming the 298
Reaching into the corners of uncertain blackness, I saw the dimmest light, that of a dying candle. It was enough to almost blind me.
Mj Pettengill
Aug 9, 20203 min read
A Magical Boy
That sacred site is an archetypal and genealogical vault filled with memories intended to be forgotten...
Mj Pettengill
Aug 6, 20204 min read
Home Sweet Home
Her dress was nothin’ more than a collection of scraps held together by a thread that was about to let go.
Mj Pettengill
Jul 26, 20203 min read
In the Bits and Pieces: Who Are These Numbered Souls?
I wasn’t the boy they wanted me to become. I was still me, one of them.
Mj Pettengill
Jul 16, 20203 min read
Remember Me, But Forget My Fate!
I was forgotten before the ink dried; there would be no wastin’ of tears.
Mj Pettengill
Jul 14, 20202 min read
Who Are These Numbered Souls?
I come before You, meek and lowly in heart...
Mj Pettengill
Jun 12, 20203 min read
Found Drowned
What I saw didn’t make sense. I could have sworn that she walked straight into the water, nearly up to her waist. My heart pounded.
Mj Pettengill
May 30, 20205 min read
Down from the Tree: Untamed Rooms
That was when I knew that we had to find a way to get music at the Farm.
Mj Pettengill
May 10, 20201 min read
The Book of Numbered Souls: # 188
However, in grace, she rose up against her punishers, keepin’ whole her spirit and pure her heart.
Mj Pettengill
May 9, 20203 min read
The Original Mother's Day Proclamation: Call for Peace
From the bosom of the devastated earth, a voice goes up with our own. It says, "Disarm, Disarm!"
Mj Pettengill
Apr 26, 20203 min read
Her Truth
The difference between us was that I found comfort in the heart of a tree while he went deep into a cave.
Mj Pettengill
Apr 19, 20207 min read
Of Ordinary People
Throughout time, in many dire settings, I have learned that as divided as they appeared to be, people were often bound by their afflictions.
Down from the Tree - Book Three
Samuel J. Hodgdon II
A Boy ~ A Vision ~ A Knowing Tree
The Journey Continues
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