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Margaret Rivers
Elder · Appalachian Herbalism · Lost her daughter
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Simone Laurent
The Hearth · Writer · Lost her mother last spring
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Elder · Tejana Folk Art · Heritage & identity
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Margaret Rivers
Elder · Appalachian Herbalism · 2 hours ago · Grief & Grace Circle
"My grandmother always said the women in our family had a gift with roots and soil. I spent thirty years ignoring that, climbing a corporate ladder that never felt like mine. At 67, I finally came home to the earth, and I want to teach every woman in this circle what I know before it disappears with me."
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Simone Laurent
The Hearth · Writer · 5 hours ago
"First time sharing in a circle like this. I lost my mother last spring and have been very much adrift. Someone told me about Matriarché and I wasn't sure, but this place already feels like something I didn't know I was looking for. To every woman here who has felt the particular cold of that loss: you are not alone in it."
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Ruth Okonkwo
Elder · Textile Weaving · Yesterday · Public
"I am contributing three years of audio recordings to the Living Archive, my grandmother's voice explaining the meaning of each pattern in our family's textile tradition. She passed in 2019. These recordings are the last place her voice still exists. I am sharing them here so they do not disappear."
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Margaret Rivers
Elder · Appalachian Herbalism
📍 Asheville, NC
"I teach women how to come home to themselves through the wisdom of plants, land, and the grandmothers who came before us."
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Career: Former RN, now herbalist
Hobby: Foraging, writing
Survived: Loss of daughter
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Simone Laurent
The Hearth · Writer & Educator
📍 Chicago, IL
"Lost my mother last spring. Adrift. A writer trying to find the words for a grief that doesn't have them yet."
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Career: High school English teacher
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Dolores Vega
Elder · Tejana Folk Art
📍 San Antonio, TX
"My hands remember what my grandmother's hands knew. Art is how identity survives."
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Career: Artist, former teacher
Hobby: Folk art, cooking
Survived: Immigration, loss
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Ruth Okonkwo
Elder · Textile Weaving
📍 Columbus, OH
"Every cloth tells a story. I am archiving my grandmother's voice before it is fully gone."
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Career: Textile artist
Hobby: Oral history, weaving
Survived: Loss of grandmother
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🎙 Oral History · Audio · West African Tradition
"What my grandmother knew about the patterns": Three recordings
Three recordings of my grandmother explaining the meaning behind each family pattern in our textile tradition. She passed in 2019. These recordings are the last place her voice still exists in the world. Contributed to the Archive so they will never disappear.
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Contributed by Ruth Okonkwo · March 2026
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📜 Written Wisdom · Remedies
My Mother's Remedies: An Appalachian Medicine Cabinet
Fourteen remedies passed from my mother's hands to mine, for fever, for grief, for the particular exhaustion of being a woman who holds too much.
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Margaret Rivers · Elder
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Letters to My Daughter (Public Excerpt)
"I will not always be here to tell you who our people were. So I am writing it down. The full letters are sealed for her, but this excerpt I offer to every daughter whose mother did not leave enough words behind."
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Dolores Vega · Elder
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A Vocabulary for Grief That English Doesn't Have
Words from seventeen languages that name what English can only approximate. Compiled from women in the Grief & Grace Circle over six months.
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🎙 Oral History · Food
The Tejana Kitchen: Food as Memory and Survival
Eight recordings of women from South Texas speaking about the recipes that held their families together through immigration, poverty, and loss. Food that tastes like home when home is gone.
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Dolores Vega · Elder
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Audrey Marr
Founder & CEO · The Council Tier · Founding Member
Cary, NC → Painesville, OH · Business development · Builder
"I built Matriarché because I lost the women who raised me and discovered that loneliness was never supposed to be this permanent. This is the circle I needed. I hope it becomes yours too."