by B. Kelly | Feb 25, 2026 | Cultural Storytelling
My grandmother used to say things that didn’t make sense to me as a child. Passing references to places nobody in our family had lived in my lifetime. Names spoken with a weight that suggested they mattered deeply, though no one ever explained why. A habit of...
by B. Kelly | Feb 25, 2026 | Ancestral Healing
I was sitting in a county courthouse in rural Louisiana, holding a document older than anyone in my living family, when the question hit me: What happens to the pieces of ourselves we never get to know? The document was a census record from 1870 — the first census...
