Warm from a book launch for The Path to Forgotten Freedom: Healing Unresolved Ancestral Trauma by Nicola Smalley
Whimsygizmo at dVerse Poets Pub encourages us tonight to pen scare-words in the Quadrille poetic form – 44 words exactly.
My quadrille at Samhain includes ‘scaremonger’ then relates to making peace with, and for, the ancestors whose historic trauma we may still feel in our lives – as grumble or anguish in my case – and celebrating what positives the Old Ones have gifted to us.
Caremonger 'Scaremonger': a mongrel mouthful between 'grumble' and 'anguish'. Perhaps I'm a grand-witch... Yet - honouring these generations who stand behind my chair in a lineage fan - I open to trauma healed; easing my forebears home into peace, releasing into freedom their restless paths. © Kathy Labrum McVittie 31 October 2022 (remembering Hannah Labrum my great-grandmother and her perhaps lover: "John Flack, gentleman")
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Nice!
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I LOVE the phrase “caremonger.” Oh, that we would all “open to trauma healed.” I feel a peace here. Thank you.
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Thank you De. I hope to keep making peace with the ones behind my chair, as I pass the records (gathered by my father) to my nephew next year.
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This is very touching Kathy, excellent write, well considered words.✌🏼❤️🎃
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thank you Rob
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‘I am open to trauma healed;’
Resonates strongly for me Kathy. These ancestral paths lurk in our memories like shadows. Such a time of resurfacing at the moment. Sorry I couldn’t attend the book launch and a chance to meet you, as I was on a myth course in Dartmoor.
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