(read Dutch Heritage page first) Epilogue circa 1970’s, me. For some reason, I have not been able to put my feet on my Dutch-Frisian home soil again. Beloved family members drove Pake (Frisian grandfather), Mammie and I over antiek weggetjes (antique roads) to find my grandparents’ last farm house …
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Sweetness after Trauma -2, Oma
In my family two of the sweet people were my maternal grandparents in The Netherlands (Holland) who I called Beppe (grandmother) and Pake (grandfather). They had each lived through WWI (when the Netherlands was able to be considered a neutral country), lost a farm in the years of the Great …
Sweetness After Trauma – 1
(Read War's Family Page, first) “Have you ever seen people who through some disaster were driven to great times of prayer? And have you noticed that once the disaster was long forgotten, a spiritual sweetness remained that warmed their souls?” June 12 Streams in the Desert L. B. Cowman I’m not …