A Place Like This

Tag: Book of Days

  • Loveables & Giveaways

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    Valarie Budayr
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    I feel like shouting for joy…..truly.  For four years I have watched as my fig tree always grows much foilage and many figs, but the figs never ripen in time to taste them. Autumn comes, the fruit drops, and there ends the story of my fig tree.           This spring I noticed that the big…

  • A forgotten box………

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    Valarie Budayr
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             He had forgotten the hours he had spent pouring over the seed and plant catalogs. Nothing seemed to come to mind when he saw the box by the door. All he saw was his name on the label and the perpetual imaginings of what one could do with this box.          It would…

  • Sakura

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    Valarie Budayr
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    Sakura is the time of year when the cherry blossoms bloom. It is one of the ways Japan knows that spring is coming. They have this little song called Sakura which was written to teach koto students how to play. With it our some lovely words which reflect this beautiful time of year. Cherry blossoms,…