A Visit to the Apothecary

Today, stooped, with her hands five inches into the soil, she found happiness.

There was a first, subtle shift as the banked coals within her started glowing.

She tilled a bed for simple snapdragons, pink and yellow, carefully avoiding the jagged leaves of poppies now three inches high.

The passing joggers and stroller-pushing mommies gave only a glance to the middle-aged woman pulling shallow winter weeds between her perennials.

Better that they didn't realize the force field building at the corner of  their street, or they might have called the authorities to report a woman in the throes of  recovery!

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Comment by Mike Handley on March 18, 2011 at 1:50pm
I can tell you found the perfect prescription by the beauty of your phrasing. I'll know you've reached Nirvana when you start saying "fuck" and "fire ants" in the same sentence. The goddess Ortho is waiting for her sacrifice.
Comment by Jamie Hogan on March 17, 2011 at 8:59pm
Now this makes me smile, because I know you needed it. Congratulations on digging that happy out of the dirt. And congratulations on writing one of the warmest sentences I've read in quite a long while (#2).
Comment by Diana E. Backhouse on March 17, 2011 at 4:00pm
I can feel this one, Gita. Love the second sentence. May those coals glow ever brighter.
Comment by Teresa on March 17, 2011 at 3:02pm
Ah yes, your apothecary in the yard.  I can't wait to see it in person.  I will one day.  Promise.  This six is so nice, so refreshingly sparse yet filling since it comes from your ever-fertile mound (her amazingly active and surprising imagination for those misreading the "mound" meaning - her characters would scatter from it like ants if kicked, her hubby says).  You always satisfy.
Comment by Jeanette Cheezum on March 17, 2011 at 2:04pm
As usual my dear Gita,  you have spun a winner.
Comment by LynnMichelle on March 17, 2011 at 11:36am

what a wonderful thing...subtle shifts that start you glowing...

thank you for the smile!

Comment by Bill Floyd on March 17, 2011 at 10:22am
A feeling of springtime in this one.  Ah, the "throes" of recovery!  Interesting choice of words.
Comment by bolton carley on March 17, 2011 at 9:51am
you would be a neighbor to keep an eye on! :)  love the first line!  and love that there's some happiness running through your veins today.
Comment by Stephen Torelli on March 17, 2011 at 9:16am
Renewal... the best medicine.
Comment by Angela on March 17, 2011 at 7:59am
Glad to see this warm post, and especially its tags.   Gives some of us hope, I am sure.  Very glad those weeds are shallow, too.

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