Cherokee Sage Woman

Home again.. at least temporarily. Having signed a contract offer on a new place in Tennessee, I'm already feeling homesick for my 'new' home. Does that make any sense at all? Just driving into the township of Tellico Plains, I felt a kinship with it. The strength of the mountain ranges & the old hardwood trees.. felt like a return to some ancient homeland. And being a former Cherokee village.. I'm sure that struck a chord with some distant part of my DNA. We are all interconnected with our past/presents/ & futures. Isn't it interesting to think that all time is in this present moment. That it's not 'linear' the way we're taught as children.. but omnipresent. Mind boggling. That Einstein was quite the thinking guru.

Ok, back to TN.. originally called by the Cherokees, 'Tenn A say'. White man always screws with pronunciation (look at how Dubya has set it back 200 yrs). Even the city Chicago, was originally pronounced 'Shick a go'.. much more chic, if you ask me.

I've decided to join a club in Tellico Plains on the Cherokee Studies! Cool, huh? I'll be their token blonde, & I mean that in it's derogatory form.. I know so little about my heritage. But I aim to learn more! My Polish-descent dtr-in-law is learning the Cherokee language.. so I should at least show as much interest.
Trivia point: Cherokee leader Sequoyah penned the 1st written language for Native-Americans. Cherokees were the 1st Native-Americans to go to a formal school.
Sad trivia: When Cherokee children were forced to go to the white man's school they were beaten if they spoke or wrote their native tongue. One learns english quite quickly that way..

I am loving this time of New Beginnings. I am ready to sink my hands into the clay, to squish my toes in the mud (the way my mama always encouraged me to), I am ready to make a walking stick & hike into the woods (acting braver than I really am), I am ready to sit on a huge veranda porch sipping iced tea and gazing at the mountain ranges in the distance. Ahh, sweet peace.. thy name is Tellico.