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Faith In The Land

Story ID:	387
Written by:	Darrell Lindsey
Story type:	Period Piece
Location:	Nacogdoches Texas USA
Year:	1964
Person:	mother

A family photograph from the 1940s
rests on the dusty shelf.
It reaches back to the mule days
of homemade clothes and soap,
when a crop's success or failure
held a family's fate.
Too much rain, or not enough--
grandfather's face became a gauge
when nature wobbled too far either way.
His blue eyes, though in black and white now,
also reflected homespun joy
when his faith in the land
kept his six children fed
for one more season.

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