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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
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Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
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 Posted - Jun 19 2006 : 05:53:28 AM
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oh lordy .. here i go again! this book: Run Me a River by Janice Holt Giles .. grabs your heart-strings from it's opening paragraphs!
"The river was running full but making no boast of it. It was sliding along under the fog minding its own business as quiet and slick as if the banks had been greased. There came along now and then a patch of foam, sometimes a big patch, sometimes a little patch, looking like pieces of torn tan lace. Once in a while a tree slid down the middle of the current rolling along high and jaunty with a kind of young, wet look of surprise when it bobbled, as if it had committed a gaucherie.
Sometimes a little piece of drift nudged up against the boat and felt of it, rubbed shoulders a minute or two, then having made a long enough acquaintance ducked and passed on by.
There wasn't a thing on the river worried about the high water except maybe a piece of bank that now and then gave up and slid loose with hardly any commotion at all. Maybe the smallest willow trees were a little troubled for once in a while one of them gave up, too ... just leaned over and let the river have it, with hardly a sign for a leave-taking.
The big willow the boat was tied to wasn't likely to pay the river any mind. It stood too far back for a cave-in and it was too old and used to the river to do anything more than dip its lowest branches into the water and let them trail out and see for themselves no harm was going to come of it."
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I love how JHG gives 'life' and 'personality' to all things nature .. rivers, trees, earth . and even driftwood!
AND OH MY .. what she does for the people of the land and river!
True Friends, Frannie
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Libbie
Farmgirl Connection Cultivator
3579 Posts
Anne E.
Elsinore
Utah
USA
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Posted - Jun 25 2006 : 2:12:10 PM
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That's beautiful, also. There is a big willow tree down by our irrigation canal that my son lovingly has named "Big Willow" and we go to "visit" every so often... perhaps JHG isn't so much GIVING life and personality as she has an amazing gift for describing the life and personality that things innately have, that we seldom notice....
Thanks for the passage!
XOXO, Libbie
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Rivers and Trees
