Eve and the Apple: The Angels' Lament
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He knew that I would not take part in blamin’ everything that ever went wrong, since the Garden of Eden, on Eve.
Mj Pettengill
- Oct 23, 2020
- 4 min
Forget Me Not: The Illusion
Facing fear in a rigged system while raising children—keeping them warm, fed, and sheltered—is downright perilous and unpredictable.
Mj Pettengill
- Oct 20, 2020
- 5 min
Kill Your Darlings: From the Scrap Pile
I keep my 'darlings' tucked away. I do not kill them entirely.
Mj Pettengill
- Oct 16, 2020
- 5 min
Her Tree
It was hard to believe that my feet were on the same earth where Mamma’s feet once were. I wondered if the earth would have known that...
Mj Pettengill
- Oct 14, 2020
- 1 min
Nurturing Your Creative Inner Garden
It is much like tending to your inner garden and watching it grow.
Mj Pettengill
- Oct 9, 2020
- 2 min
Kids and Trains: Meet August
They would take you out and beat you senseless if they found you hidin’ in a car. I only got caught once, and that was enough for me.
Mj Pettengill
- Oct 7, 2020
- 5 min
THE POOR: LENDING THEIR SECRETS PART 4
With this new-found freedom came the challenges of women working for pennies a day while boosting a handful of already influential families
Mj Pettengill
- Oct 4, 2020
- 1 min
A Sinner Prepares For Church: October 6, 1872
I longed for the time when God shined His candle about my head as in the days of my youth.
Mj Pettengill
- Oct 1, 2020
- 7 min
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.
Mj Pettengill
- Sep 24, 2020
- 5 min
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, 2020
- 5 min
I Screamed at God - (Excerpt)
I reached towards the wreckage of my whole existence.
Mj Pettengill
- Sep 17, 2020
- 4 min
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 11, 2020
- 6 min
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, 2020
- 6 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
Shoo Away the Ghosts: Simple Acknowledgment
Where was God when it happened?
Mj Pettengill
- Aug 20, 2020
- 4 min
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 10, 2020
- 3 min
A Magical Boy
That sacred site is an archetypal and genealogical vault filled with memories intended to be forgotten...
Mj Pettengill
- Aug 6, 2020
- 4 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
Remember Me, But Forget My Fate!
I was forgotten before the ink dried; there would be no wastin’ of tears.
Down from the Tree - Book Three
Samuel J. Hodgdon II
A Boy ~ A Vision ~ A Knowing Tree
The Journey Continues
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