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Jeanne H. Chambers

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Once dubbed a “wonder bra for the human spirit”, I'm just a simple red dirt girl fluent only in English and Southern, Charming and Cranky. A stone turner of long standing, I feel most beautiful when wearing earrings that dangle and skirts that caper, and I adores rocks, cloth, empty boxes, and pink party dresses.

Married long enough that the mere mention of my wedding anniversary sparks applause, I've survived two teenagers, a Cesarean delivery without anesthesia, a mugging on the sidewalks of New York, hanging wallpaper with my husband, and Christmas, 1993.

Though I've received many awards and honors for my work as a professional speaker and community volunteer and though I have a Bachelor of Science in Education and a Master’s degree in Tra ...more

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A Remembering

An older woman with gray hair and wearing a shirtwaist dress made of cotton, her left hand resting on the shoulder of an adorable (if I do say so myself!) little girl with a bow in her brown hair, wearing a yellow and gray organization dress trimmed with white lace and embellished with a poufy petticoat holding an overflowing Easter basket stand in a field of unending red clover

Young Jeanne and her paternal grandmother stand in an unending field of red clover one beautiful Easter, with Jeanne holding her Easter basket filled to overflowing with brightly-colored eggs she found at her material grandmother’s house mere hours before her daddy took this photo.

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

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“There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.”
― Eleanor Brown, The Weird Sisters

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