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The Home Stretch

March 21, 2013 By Talya Tate Boerner 4 Comments

     Turning north at West Memphis, I breathe a bit easier. The air seems lighter, the skies clearer.  An ordinary trip driven countless times now fortifies me, replenishes memories, helps me remember.  
     A crop duster tilts his yellow wing in my direction, then turns and dips before misting fertilizer across winter wheat. Like crocus pushing through the cold, he is a first sign of spring.  To dazed travelers and long-haul truckers, the flat landscape appears dead and dull, yet I know life churns beneath wet fields. 
     In the distance, a recent thunderstorm hovers over the Mississippi River. Clouds hang heavy and purple.
talya

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Home Sweet Home, The Farm

Filed Under: Family, Farm, Nature & Seasons Tagged With: cotton, farmers, Mississippi County, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi River, Northeast Arkansas, spring

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  1. TimH says

    March 21, 2013 at 8:39 am

    Beautifully written, Talya, and yeah…There’s no place like home…

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  2. Joyce Lansky says

    March 21, 2013 at 3:12 pm

    Hey, wait a minute. Were you in my neighborhood? I live in Memphis.

    http://joycelansky.blogspot.com/2013/03/passover-quiz.html

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    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      March 21, 2013 at 5:44 pm

      Yes Joyce! I am from Northeast Arkansas:))

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  3. Julie Grimmett says

    March 22, 2013 at 5:56 pm

    Beautiful! And I agree, there is no place like home.

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Hi! I'm Talya. Writer, Reader, Arkansas Master Naturalist / Master Gardener, Author of

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