The Cradle of Stone - Softcover

Pratt, Jeff

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ISBN 10: 0997202467 ISBN 13: 9780997202465

Publisher: Can't Put It Down Books, 2017

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Alonqua, a Lenape boy of the early 1800’s, an orphan, is sent by Mawenteh, his elderly guardian, on a journey to a sacred waterfall. This is Mawenteh’s last request, for that very night he will die. The journey takes Alonqua from the heart of a beaver lodge to the heart of a great storm, from the release of a snared otter to a bond with a mother eagle. And ultimately to an understanding of the White Man who will come to warn his village of impending destruction.Unknown to Alonqua at the beginning, the journey is a vision quest. What he learns on the way is his Spirit Name and the courage to do what is true and right—for himself, for his people, and for the sacred earth.

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About the Author

A teacher for 32 years, Jeff Pratt translated “retirement” into an eight-year journey of redemption. He spent much of his childhood guided by the animals and trees of a little valley near Wooster, Ohio. Nestled in the valley were an island of pines, a little stream and four ponds. Pratt knew all the deer paths, the fox den, the best fishing holes and the best swinging vines. Every child should have such a place, but too few do, and often in this world, such places do not last. The end of “the valley” began with survey stakes, then machinery, then a four-lane highway that took traffic around the city. And there was nothing a12-year-old boy could do about it. It has taken 8 years of journeying, from Ohio to the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, for Pratt to find that valley once again—first with a little house along a cascading brook in a town called Passumpsic (Abenaki for clear-flowing water). And second with a book—this one—the one you hold right now.

Review

Real magic and real mystery are around us at every moment. We need but to stop, put our gadgets away, listen, feel, observe, open the door to understanding and embrace what it means to be a human being. No matter where you are on your journey, this book encourages the awakening of the spirit within.

Jim Beer

Singer, Songwriter, Lenape Educator and former spokesperson for the Lenape Nation Pennsylvania

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