Issue 42 "But the kids are all grown now, gone on their own journeys. And, you know, I still have a fondness for peas, despite the nuisance they are. When I picked them all early this morning, they looked beautiful: two rows of peas, back to back, smartly climbing up the little fence I'd staked for them this spring. As I picked and set them in a wicker basket, the sun rose higher in the sky. A goldfinch flitted in the raspberries, and a wren quarreled at a cat beneath her lilac-bush nest... I thought again about that pea sheller. Funny thing is, I can't figure now why it seemed like such a great thing. Shelling peas is kind of nice. And these are really sweet peas, the sweetest peas I've ever had. Slow is better. Good things are worth waiting for. Peas are sweeter when they're not scrunched. So is life." --Susan Bare, "Shelling Peas" |
80 pages
Contents
"Shelling Peas"
By Susan Bare
"I Can't Grow Grass!"
By Martine Caselli
"Clouds"
By David Kline
"Weed or Flower?"
By June Perdue
"Let Sleeping Bees Lie"
By Marilyn E. Wheeless
"Attack of the Runaway Waterbed"
By Donnalee Dunne
"The Best of Who I Am"
By Barbara Reitz
"Heating Up for Summer"
By Ted Berger
"Deer Diary"
By Anne Schroeder
"Sweet Pea Dreams"
By Audrey Y. Scharmen
"The Curious Affair of the Sunflower-Marigold Seeds"
By Mike McGrath
"Seize the Dawn"
By Jennifer Szubielak
"Zen and Fire Ants"
By Suzanne Freeman
"A Brief History of Watering"
By Diana Wells
"On a Summer Night"
By Karen Miller
" 43" x 142" "
By Susan Brown
