When my grandma Winnie was a toddler she was one of 60,000 poor folk displaced completely by the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire when the crowed South of Market slums where they lived were destroyed. She and her family lived in a refugee camp at the foot of Potrero Hill until October of 1907 when the court took the remaining minor children and placed them in different orphanages after her mother's death. I have spent the last year finding their stories and am beginning the journey of crafting them into a book to honor their lives, lives that were forgotten for so many years. In my Reclaiming Witch Tradition we say, "What's remembered, lives." I will be blogging about this journey of researching, remembering, writing, and bringing them to life. Already for me they are very alive and I'd like to introduce you to them through this blog as I write this book. Please join me in this journey of making them live again, I would love your company. - Blessings Lizann
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Joyce Cox
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AuthorAfter over a year of research, both historical and deeply spiritual, I'm starting to write my next book based on the life of my great-grandma Josephine Juarez Romero Lindsey Smith (Josie) and her family. They lived "South of the Slot" in San Francisco in the late 19th century and through the 1906 earthquake and fire. She had 11 children, seven of whom lived to be adults. Her life had been forgotten but now she lives and speaks through my heart and imagination and DNA. Please wish me well as I start the writing part of what has already been a remarkable relationship with Grandma Josie and her life and spirit. Archives
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