Photo prompt: Sue Vincent
“They bow, you see,” Mir explained.
The child held on silently to his hand.
Mir peered down at the small head, so uncharacteristically still, the red curls shining like molten gold under the sun.
The quiet lingered and Mir did not break it. More words would not change how there was only so much one could say about some things.
A bird fleeted close. A bee buzzed by. Somewhere a donkey brayed and a dog’s bark answered.
Still the child did not move.
Mir let the air in and out of his lungs mark the passage of time, even as he knew it would not be measured in the same way by the child. Nor would it matter. Time is rarely what it seems to be, anyhow.
The air shimmered. The scent of smoke wafted from someplace beyond the fields, and in it mixed the faintest hints of manure and baking bread.
A caterpillar inched its way atop a blade of grass.
“There is no wind,” the child finally noted.
“There is not,” Mir confirmed.
“Are they tied together?”
“They are holding limbs.”
The child looked at her own hand in her grandfather’s. She did not look up, but Mir could feel the connection being made as it wove a thread of understanding between the two of them, between them all.
A hush fell. Then a sudden breeze rippled through the field and whistled an unnamed sound as it passed through the stacks. The tips nodded.
The child bowed back.
For Sue Vincent’s Thursday Photo Prompt: Wicker
Na'ama Yehuda 
Utterly magical, Na’ama!
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Thank you, Sue! 🙂
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The last line bowled me over. Fantastic 💚
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🙂 Thank you!
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Take a bow dear Na’ama, so beautifully penned! xxx
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Yay hurray, my friend! So glad you liked it! 🙂
XOXO
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I have to agree. This was positively magical.
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Yay!
I’m enchanted by your praise! 😉
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🙂
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Thank you, Sue!
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What beautiful writing, full of great imagery and emotion. It was like being there. A real treat.
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Thank you! I’m so pleased with this comment! It was a fantastic photo to write for, thanks to Sue!
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Love this.
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Thank you, Bela! So glad you liked it! 🙂
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😊
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Very Sweet and moving.
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Thank you Suzanne! 🙂
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This is beautiful. So glad that the grandchild could feel the power of the connection between his grandfather and himself.
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🙂 Thanks, Michele! Glad you enjoyed this post!
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Thanks!
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