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Megan - 12/04/2025

Staying Warm

I enjoy the quiet calm of staying warm. Inside with a book or two whilst the storm blows through clearing the snow the next day we are going to have a hot chocolate and shiver when we are done.

But the puddles! And oh! The slush throughout the world; the push through the cold for the families, for birth, for spring. Oh the subtle promise of spring on the horizon when it’s almost over.

The picturesque bright green sprouts pushing up into the soggy dirt. The new sprouts exactly where they are supposed to be. We leave for work. We say we miss you and we really do

Tyeita - 10/23/2025

I was a good leaf from a patch tree

I remind you of Christmas time and adornments to decorate the Christmas tree

I am almost fully grown I have changed colors I smell like the beige wet leaves that fall off the trees in the fall time on the front of me my color has turned to velvet smoke rose purple red and on the back I have veins.

I was walking with my father in riverside park and I asked him about our walk the park and the trees and he reached up and plucked a leaf from a big wide tree that was tall and sort of beige like the sycamore trees the lead was green dark and fully grown and he gave me the leaf and he told me if I liked it keep it to put it in my pocket I was round about 5 years old I put the leaf in my pocket and we kept walking to enjoy over to the park it taught me to respect our trespass through the area and to love and be kind to the trees and ask for love and relationship