Join me on YouTube every Wednesday at noon EST, for a live streaming reading from the novel The Garden: Next week - The Garden of Despair - Bitter Roots.
Can you hear us, stranger?
Can you hear us, friend?
The thoughts at your temples,
the love in your heart,
the will to remember,
the capacity to overcome,
the things you will make,
the paths you will take,
your life from outside of yourself?
If there is one thing left after we’re gone,
one small thing that matters,
even an echo in a canyon,
even a faint scent on a breeze,
then we haven’t lived in vain,
have we?
Such was the beauty of Cimmy’s garden, and how proud she was of it! It was the most beautiful place on earth, she thought, this walled garden of hers, this heavenly shelter in the middle of existence, this place where everything was flawless.