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Childhood... gleaning abandoned plants

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"A Childhood Memory"   [E] by Sidney D.

Mini-review: a 4.5... at least! Loved it. I don't write these memoirish things much but I remember when they cut our elm down, My Tree! But the ending... losing half my kingdom would have bruised me. I can't improve on it. You're a story-teller and I'm a poet.

What do you remember from early childhood?

I'm still not over that they cut my elm down.

I collected abandoned plants. I remember a marigold, cosmos, iris, daffodil. I still collect plants. May have waited too long to grab a red geranium. We'll see whether it survives. As a child I'd bring in a tomato to shorten the winter. I guess I was always a rescuer of sorts.

"Space Cadet - the never ending journal"  is now finished for OctoPrep. I'll need to create a folder and a separate item to collect the stories. I'll continue to write them mostly as blog entries but need one place where I can read them in order. It also helps with word count. My goal is 30,000. I'd rather reach a lower goal than exhaust myself. Words written so far? Dunno.

QueenNormaJean maybesnow?! sent me a c-note: "No Job is Too Big" . Got a couple e-mails that felt like a hug. Sometimes people 'get' me. That helps during difficult times.

On basefrooq:

I am healthy.
I am whole, and I have poor impulse control
And I want to go home.
But I am home. — Margi Cates

Margi is a singer ... I can hear the cadence, could turn this into a song.

I finished Dark Dreamscapes: "Two noses are better than one [267]" 

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