PRESENTING THE HOMESTEADING

These letters describe what happened to and for my family once the ‘calling of the homestead’ reached us — and we found one another.

My sister, Cindy, recently mentioned that even though the process of homesteading itself, and the years after the actual process of homesteading had been completed, were strenuous and very stress-distressful, it may well have been that without it having been a part of our lives and a part of our family, perhaps my mother’s madness would have consumed us all — and she would have killed us.

Perhaps homesteading becomes its own act of madness for anyone who accepted such a challenge.  Perhaps the land itself has a power to possess its inhabitants.  As you read these letters you will begin to see what I mean.

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Please also visit my main blog that presents my personal child abuse story – Stop the Storm – and it’s partner blog that contains useful information about the physical changes that happen to the developing brains of severely abused infants and young children – Workspace for Stop the Storm – both blogs being about stopping the intergenerational transmission of unresolved traumas, about stopping child abuse and about healing traumas.  Thank you!  Linda

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This page has the following sub pages.

• +MY MOTHER’S OWN BOOK
• +1958 MOTHER’S LETTERS – FINDING LAND
• +1959 LETTERS – (IN THE ACT) HOMESTEADING
• +1960 – MOTHER’S HOMESTEADING LETTERS
• +1961 – MOTHER’S WRITINGS
• +1962 MOTHER’S WRITINGS
• +1963 MOTHER’S LETTERS
• +1964 WRITINGS (Including Alaskan Earthquake)
• *1965 MOTHER’S LETTERS
• +1966 MOTHER’S WRITINGS
• +1967 MOTHER’S WRITINGS