The post from yesterday about Ghosts really was more about the spirit of place and how we associate people who have moved on from this world with places in it. Land and water have always been real entities to me, as real as people. Time and space feel different to me than how they do […]
Ghosts
As I drove around Indiana last summer I did not revisit some of the places and feelings I might have thought I would have. It might be because I did not have time. But I may have created new rituals or ways of saying goodbye to people and places I can only remember as existing […]
Conscription
My mother’s family, the Brubaker part of it, were Amish. The Amish began in the Eastern Alps of Switzerland where The Swiss Guard conscripted from poor villages. My father’s family, Hill, Hille at that time, arrived in the New World as Hession soldiers.
Autoethnography
Note: Yes, I’m alive and writing. I have not posted here for a very long time. Sometimes life happens. It can fall, in buckets and buckets, right on our heads. Fortunately, showers exist. Photo by Tonia Kraakman on Unsplash So much to record, analyze, and group into “like experiences” from my 2025 travels that I […]