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Dark Secrets

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100 Words on Saturday Week 10 Prompt – Dark Secrets



What ‘cha got there Jack?

Startled to see his mother standing in the doorway, he slammed the cigar box lid.

Nothing. Just my box for special things. 

What kind of things?
Just things I find when I’m out playing, and things my friends give me. Michael gave me a matchbox car when I traded my chocolate milk at school… He smiled innocently, looking up from the floor.
Okay, supper’s ready. Her voice trailed down the hallway.
Pulling the fistful of bubble gum from his pocket, he added it to his box of growing secrets, and shoved it under the bed. 

talya

First Mother

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We discussed the passage below in my writing group this week. The perfect tribute for Mother’s Day…


“It is often said that the first sound we hear in the womb is our mother’s heartbeat. Actually, the first sound to vibrate our newly developed hearing apparatus is the pulse of our mother’s blood through her veins and arteries. We vibrate to that primordial rhythm even before we have ears to hear. Before we were conceived, we existed in part as an egg in our mother’s ovary. All the eggs a woman will ever carry form in her ovaries while she is a four-month-old fetus in the womb of her mother. This means our cellular life as an egg begins in the womb of our grandmother. Each of us spent five months in our grandmother’s womb and she in turn formed within the womb of her grandmother. We vibrate to the rhythms of our mother’s blood before she herself is born. And this pulse is the thread of blood that runs all the way back through the grandmothers to the first mother. We all share the blood of the first mother – we are truly children of one blood.” ~ Layne Redmond
Nana                 Momma                  Me                    Kelsey

talya

Musical Pairing:

Mother and Child Reunion, Paul Simon

Waiting

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Wordless Wednesday

annabelle

“Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.” -John Grogan, Marley and Me

talya

Musical Pairing:

Waiting for a Girl Like You, Foreigner

Food. Farm. Garden. Life.

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