I belong here as much as I would belong in the lands of my ancestors, in Scotland, Ireland, England, France, or Poland. And yet.. I live and love on the land colonized as North Carolina, the land of the Keyauwee people, which does not belong to me at all, but has claimed a part of my soul.
I am not a Jew, and I do not consider myself the descendant of diasporic peoples, although all of my ancestors left their homelands. I find myself having already visited and desiring to go back or wanting to go in the first place to the homelands of my ancestors, to see what they left. To see where they loved.
Hi Camille! Thanks for the comment. And I agree with you, it's best to be claimed by both :) I have some Irish ancestry as well, and I've been building botanical bridges there too. Hawthorn is a great one. Soooo much deep Celtic mythology around hawthorn. And it grows all over the US.
Do not get me started on Celtic mythology!! I was just in a very mythical part of England this summer and was able to go to Scotland. It was so potent. It does, yes! Hawthorn, ash trees are one I love as well and oak trees. And I’ve yet to see a yew tree here but I know they grow in North America. Anyhoo 😊 wonderful post!
I belong here as much as I would belong in the lands of my ancestors, in Scotland, Ireland, England, France, or Poland. And yet.. I live and love on the land colonized as North Carolina, the land of the Keyauwee people, which does not belong to me at all, but has claimed a part of my soul.
I am not a Jew, and I do not consider myself the descendant of diasporic peoples, although all of my ancestors left their homelands. I find myself having already visited and desiring to go back or wanting to go in the first place to the homelands of my ancestors, to see what they left. To see where they loved.
Hi Camille! Thanks for the comment. And I agree with you, it's best to be claimed by both :) I have some Irish ancestry as well, and I've been building botanical bridges there too. Hawthorn is a great one. Soooo much deep Celtic mythology around hawthorn. And it grows all over the US.
Do not get me started on Celtic mythology!! I was just in a very mythical part of England this summer and was able to go to Scotland. It was so potent. It does, yes! Hawthorn, ash trees are one I love as well and oak trees. And I’ve yet to see a yew tree here but I know they grow in North America. Anyhoo 😊 wonderful post!