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Singing Creek Where The Willows Grow The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal Whiteley
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Opal Whiteley
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, December 19, 2022
The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow is a shimmering story within a story, wrapped in relentless tragedy–a gem in world literature. It wasn't only The Creek Where the Willows Grow that was singing through the forests of Cottage Grove OR from 1904-1906. Opal's opening soul was springing fresh from the well, pouring its love into the forest, its trees and creatures, and her diary. The diary gives us a 6-year-old magical child and–with breathtaking freshness and effortless luminosity–direct access to her innocent wonder and tender vulnerability. Everything that happened to Opal is understandable today. Her fantasies of royal parentage and being adopted were coping mechanisms in a world with zero comprehension of an abused child's intense need for refuge. Opal's fixation on 'real' royal parents and being adopted were perfect mythological metaphors for how desperately out of place she was in her family. Labeling Opal a fraud, the world dismissed her as insane. It spit her out, locked her away, left her alone with her wounding and the smite of its judgment and repudiation. Cruelly misunderstood, Opal was anything but a liar or a fraud. Oh, Opal! I, too, have lived in the woods and let my heart rip there. I wish we could have walked the woods together at night until dawn. May God forgive your blind, ignorant critics and doctors and this punishing, unseeing world. You were a rarified, brilliant, innocent being, a gift. You will always be a soul-sister to me.
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Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen
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Lisa J Shannon
PrayerDancer
, March 11, 2015
Two years into a reign of terror imposed by Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (the LRA), while Congo's President Kabila continues to deny any violence is occurring there, author/activist Lisa Shannon travels to the most heavily affected, remote region of far northeastern Congo with her friend, Francisca Thelin. Less than a week after the most recent LRA attack nearby, they arrive at Mama Koko's (Francisca's mother's) family compound, where they had been planning to stay. Over the course of a month, in what they come to call “Mama Koko’s War Tribunal,” they collect the real story, interviewing survivors in hopes of awakening the world to the crisis and of arousing the international community to respond to it. What succeeds most about Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen, is that Shannon takes us deeper than the suffering, into the transcendent root of the love, strength, and tenacity of soul of Mama Koko and her family. Above all, Shannon gives us the intimate story of a real and endearing African family, a fully human story. She gives us an authentic human face, a context and focus that rounds out our grasp of the atrocities that too many African families face today. And she fills a void in our literature and the kinds of stories we tell about Africans in the process. Shannon’s simple and direct telling tenderly weaves the family’s past with its present. She laces vignettes of Francisca’s magical childhood innocence in with the mythic, lively roots of the family's mystical and cultural traditions, softening the blow of the harsh realities of the violence it has endured. Reading this book, you will laugh and you will cry; if you pray, you will pray; your heart will sing and it will ache. And you will fall in love with Mama Koko, one rock of an African matriarch, and the family she holds together.
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