Just another afternoon waiting on the school bus
At first, I was just watching the pretty white bird in the pasture across the road
Dad putting Junior in his place
Mom to the rescue with sibling in tow
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
~Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant, 1968
My children love to go for walks through what they call The Land, which is the five acres of woods behind our home. Back in the fall, before my surgery, Trin and Rane made certain I went to see a certain very large fallen tree
My husband found a patch of cactus in the woods behind our home last evening. He told our children, “Grandma was here,” meaning she had planted the cactus when she lived on our property years ago. She now lives in town, and my husband has been working to restore our land to the pristine condition it was in when he was a boy. My young son loves cactus, and has been asking me to plant cactus seeds,so the discovery of this patch was a pleasant surprise in more ways than one.
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