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The Hollow is Now Closed...
I was going to do this on Saturday but since Zaedah has closed down before me, there is no use waiting til then. For those of you who have stopped by Hoot Owl Hollow and visited for awhile, I say thank you very much.
I will miss you all. It is a good day to kill a blog site...
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The Old Man...8-21-1998
The poem that follows is a little over 14 years old and is still one of my favorite things that I have written. I wrote it after hiking on the New Jersey side of the Delaware Water Gap. As I sat on the rocks at the top of the mountain, I heard and then saw two bald eagles flying overhead. I watched them for about ten minutes and then they were ( Read more... ) -
Thanksgiving Day 11-13-2000
What follows is something I wrote 11-13-2000. I hope it will make you stop and think about what this day means to you and yours.
Thanksgiving Day...
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The Forgotten History of Genocide Part III
The Start of Genocide in The New World
We will now take a look at how genocide made its way to the New World and the Native Americans who lived there. We must go back in time to 1452 and Pope Nicholas V and his Papel Bull of that year. A Papel Bull is also called a Doctrine of Discovery and it puts forth the idea that as Christians they had the ( Read more... ) -
The Forgotten History of Genocide, Part II
Before we start, I think it is important to know what the word genocide means. In Webster's 21st Century Dictionary it tells us that the word genocide is a noun and that it is the willful killing of a Nation. But where did this word come from?
The word genocide was unknown before 1944. A Jewish lawyer from Poland coined the word while he was ( Read more... ) -
The Forgotten History of Genocide Part I
Whenever most people hear the word "Genocide," their minds think about World War II and the death camps. Our history books teach our children what happened, why it happened and how many it happened to. It was truly a sad day in the history of mankind.
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The Story of The Leaves
The Tree of Life with it's many leaves teaches us much about life. A lesson that can serve us all well. You see we are like the leaves on a tree.
At one point in the warming weather the first buds of new leaves will start to grow. They are small and helpless and need much caring for in order to grow. We are born much the same way, small and ( Read more... ) -
Why Clean Dirt
I do not know if anyone reading this uses Google News. I myself like it. You can program the screen to only show you what you are interested in. Of course mine is set for all things Native American.
While viewing my news last week, I came across an article that set my poor feeble mind into motion. The article was about a 6 year lawsuit.
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