Okefenokee swamp song7/14/2023 He just knew he needed a change, a transformation. He didn’t really know how it was going to go. “Russell decided to explore the idea of ritual. How Russell Storms’ 40th birthday travels drew him closer to his grandfather: But there’s a weaving together that happens, because the younger man goes in search of some rescue of his self-esteem, and he does that by re-addressing his place as a Native American.” And we follow these two in different time periods so that we can get an idea of how these individual lives run on their own. He has burned out as a teacher and really fallen from grace in almost every area of his life, including his marriage and his health, his habits. ![]() Warren continued, “Little does the populace there know that the real minority race at that school is his, Cherokee. He’s one-quarter Cherokee and he’s immersed in some of the racist problems in public school in the 1990s.” The grandson, his name is Russell Storms, his last name being abbreviated from his grandfather’s longer name, and he’s a school teacher in Chicago. He’s a full-blooded Cherokee living in the 1940s, and he has a reputation as an extraordinary trainer of horses - what people today would call a ‘horse whisperer,'” Warren recounted. The grandfather’s name is Jonas Walks Through The Storm. ![]() “The book is a parallel telling of two lives, a grandfather and a grandson.
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