Prompted by several converging thoughts. I saw a sign in Dayton, Tennessee and saying it was the route of the Cherokee exodus, the infamous Trail of Tears that led thousands of American Cherokee Indians from their green hunting homeland to dry desert encampments out west in the l830s. I had also spent much time over several years talking to a gentleman named Francis Marion Daves, a retired Georgia architect, while we were both members of the Dixie Council of Writers, Poets and Journalists at St. Simon Island in the mid-1980s attending writing workshops--Mr. Daves was about 70 at the time (about my age now.) He was a Georgia architect, who had written a book entitled Cherokee Woman, detailing the Trial of Tears through her eyes, Mr. Daves also wrote several clever rhyme books for children which my three children enjoyed. I was fascinated too about his story of riding a bicycle through Nazi Germany right before WWII one summer while on a break from college. Anyway, all these things caused me to post this music of the Trail of Tears. He also wrote some children books. I took my three children to the workshops on a couple of occasions, and Mr. Davis autographed a copy of his books for them. I actually won the first place category for best journaling writing ideas for writers, which I considered a huge honor, one year at the Conference attended by hundreds of writers. Is our nation not the sum total of how we treat others...how we neglect it? One good New Year Resolution would be to treat all others kindly and respectfully and helpfully as we would wish to be treated ourselves--the old Golden Rule.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 12:50:28 +0000
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