by Ashley Larkin | Jan 31, 2012 | Favorite posts, Gratitude, Hope, Joy, Mothering, Perspective
Only bleached cherry pits under foot and a bright yellow bus and a dad in a rain slicker walking his bike up the sidewalk. Only kids on the playground playing tag and a girl with jet black hair screaming a warning call with all she’s got. Only three-year-olds...
by Ashley Larkin | Jan 11, 2012 | Gratitude, Mothering, Perspective
I nearly forget the lines of that house that carries my memory to one hundred years of solitude (that soul-stirring book), so grand and deep tired with its loose roof tiles and sagging porch. And I’m forgetting those other decomposing things in our neighborhood....