by Ashley Larkin | Oct 22, 2012 | Community, Concrete Words, Faith, Favorite posts, Love
She connects little daisies one to another, and it is magic to see how she links them — pushes her thumb nail through the bottom of a stem, runs another flower through. She laces while the sky falls warm on my face. We sit in this field of summer green, and it...
by Ashley Larkin | Sep 17, 2012 | Childhood, Concrete Words, Faith, Mothering
We sit on the kitchen floor, she facing me, knees pressed against my belly, forehead pressed against mine, fingering the links of the chain. She pulls her head back to see the length, metal pieces grabbing hold one after again, these ovals laced around my neck like...