Child's Pose: Not Necessarily Garden Related

Pleading My Case Before the Moon
“OK then, show me!” I whispered into the darkness, stepping defiantly away from my heavy back door as I pulled it shut behind me, “Help me to understand these advantages of seeing the world as you see it.”I stepped cautiously across the deck, pausing near the edge of the shadow.“I feel t

The Misadventures of Harry Covért
There once was a strange boy named Harry whose mother was a pumpkin princess and whose father was a lowly French farm bean. I know, I know, it is a very rare thing indeed for a beautiful, plump, ruddy-skinned pumpkin princess to fall for a thin, crisp-tongued string bean with a bad French accent, but apparently it happens. It happened in this instance when Monsieur Covért, smitten by the downy mildew

Loss and Forbidden Fruit
I’ve spent much of my life chasing people who didn’t want to be caught. I suppose it could have all started with a mother who really, really did not want to be our ‘momma’, despite the best efforts of my sisters and me to win her over. And it has continued onward, unravelling slowly toward health through ge

Why I tend to take the dirt road . . .
Nine times out of ten, that unpaved road is going to slow me down, encourage me to look more intently, be more interesting.Got any pics to share from the dirt roads of your recent travels?

On Surrender
#78:Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water.Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible,nothing can surpass it.The soft overcomes the hard;the gentle overcomes the rigid.Everyone knows this is true,but few can put it into practice.Therefore the Master re