Welcome to Five Minute Friday
Today’s writing prompt is: Roots
The soil in the village is deep. Living half a world away I still know it is deep.
Remembering sitting in the door way and the rain falling. The boys and the children running around the yard trying to save the laundry and bikes from the deluge. The chickens running for the boys kitchen.
Still pictures in my mind that knit together to form a silent movie. Alex on the front porch talking about working for us and his job of caring for the plants and me and the girls. A young boy becoming a man before my eyes. Growing and changing like my own children. Learning to control his boyish temper.
Yes the soil in the village is deep and we put down roots there. Roots that will tie us to the place and the people forever. Roots that will hold us between worlds. They will make us strong when the storm comes and keep us grounded. Roots that one day will take me back there. Roots that will take me home.
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