Maria Hernandez
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The Trail of Tears was over, but never will be forgotten. In the outskirts of a small town in Virginia what used to be all their ancestral lands lived a small band of Nottoway Native people of the Turtle Clan. Most of their people living or visiting close to Tennessee and North Carolina borders had been stolen by the soldiers and volunteers representing a power that had become insatiable in its desire for land, not caring which Native tribes that crossed their paths they were forcibly relocating any that could stand in the way of that desire. Many of the royal family, the keepers of the healing stream were forced on such a journey, but they knew one day their descendant’s hearts would bring them back home to Virginia, but they would need a path to follow. So they willed their souls to the trees and the stones along the trail as their bodies lay down to unite back with Mother Earth. A trail that still bears their name to this day, awaiting their children’s return. And if you listen closely to the wind and the shifting of the stones on that trail you will hear their story.
By Maria Hernandez5 years ago in Families
To Vivlio ton Oneiron
Darius was a poor young man in ancient Roman times, but a good and loyal Roman citizen. The only opportunity for a young poor man was to join the army. The pay and benefits were good enough to make a promising future and the possibility to fulfill one’s dream, who dared to dream. His family originally came from Greece hundreds of years before as philosophers and dreamers, thinking they would spread knowledge and enlightenment. What they found was prejudice, General Lucius Mummius and the total domination of the world and all they left behind in Greece. Darius could read and write and that was worth more than its weight in gold and also a way to possibly rise in the ranks as a Centurion. Darius was being talked about around the camp as the soldier with a pen in the right hand and a gladius in the left.
By Maria Hernandez5 years ago in Families
