Who wouldn’t want to stomp on iced-over puddles, feel that delicious crackle as you splash through to mud underneath?
Who wouldn’t want to pick up pieces of glass-like ice, feel them fall to smaller pieces in your hands, see if the shards will float or sink?
Who wouldn’t want to drag around the biggest stick you can, knowing you will need it to poke at some leaves or swish in the water?
Who wouldn’t want to run and yell and discover?
When your face is numb with cold, your boots filled with water, your mittens caked with dirt you can grumble all the way back to a warm house with the joy known only to kids who have played hard. That’s how you have fun.’
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. `e.e. cummings
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About Laura Grace Weldon
Laura Grace Weldon is the author of three poetry collections --- Portals (Middle Creek, 2020), Blackbird (Grayson Books, 2019), and Tending (Aldrich Press, 2013), as well as Free Range Learning, a handbook of natural learning (Hohm Press, 2010).
She lives on Bit of Earth Farm where she's a barely useful farm wench. Although she has deadlines to meet she often wanders from the computer to preach hope, snort with laughter, cook subversively, ponder life’s deeper meaning, talk to chickens and cows, sing to bees, hide in books, walk dogs, concoct tinctures, watch foreign films, and make messy art.
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