How does a child learn to lie? It’s in the air, it’s in your eye. Word-drift. Intonation. Body language. Sigh. And when, a short time later, is disbelieved, is brought to deceive, little by little, by and by.
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We were on a first-name basis. Now we just smile and nod when the wind blows.
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Read the thirty-seventh chapter of Middlemarch.
Moved daffodils from the plastic pot they’d bloomed in and been stored in, to a larger, deeper, old clay pot with white stains around the bottom. The bulbs looked healthy; some had smaller bulbs attached, which were separated and planted. All in all, a very literary afternoon.
September 28, 2023.
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Categories: If It Had A Name
Tags: Actions, Body Language, Children, Daffodils, Eyes, Flowers, George Eliot, Journals, Learning, Lies, Middlemarch, Names, Reading, Smiles, Trust, Truth, Wind, Words
William Michaelian 