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When Grandmothers Are Mothers Of The Soil

May 9, 2014 No Comments

I planted Begonia’s this year. They were my grandma’s favorites. I didn’t learn a lot from my grandma, except when to stay silent, how to dig deeply, and this white-girl love for basketball. I take the long, pointed scooper, bend low on a stump I find randomly around our property. And there, along the cement slab, […]

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Opening Love and other Green Vegetables

August 26, 2011 15 Comments

My childhood home. Wisdom takes a seat with littlest one. Anticipating with wide eyes the stack before her. Natures delight waiting to do more than hang on limbs. Exploding with color to the taste buds they cry. And the two sit at ancestors table. The one I hid peas under when I was so little….rebellious. Yet, […]