Mom, can you get me my kitty book and bring it to me?
Child, do you see what I am doing?
Yes.
What am I doing?
Cooking my dinner.
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Round here we beat back the selfishness with some good old fashioned manual labor. Potato planting season helps:
A little dirt under the fingernails…
A start in the the ground turning into the food for the table…
A little seed deep into the heart…
It does them good and me even more good, for you see, round here I’m Chief Selfish. When it comes to planting I’m much quicker on the roots of self and bitterness than the potatoes. God save me.
So we beg forgiveness and dig together and plant a little something that might grow into a big something that feeds our hearts and souls and bellies.
And then we paint fingernails and talk about princesses because Ew, they were dirty.
