from this excerpt ..........
"Country life is a dream, a moment's observance of nature's wonders, the beauty of freedom, and the struggles of hard work. It's a sense of life I don't think you can capture completely in town; it's a way of life I hope my children will experience one day. I hope they'll taste a jar of wild plum jam or see a newborn calf and be able to picture pleasant memories. And who knows, one day maybe they'll begin to sense something special about the land. Maybe they'll feel the call to pick up a pair of reins, dust off a secondhand saddle, and feel the power of twelve hundred pounds of horse beneath them. Maybe they'll smell the sweat, see the indescribable beauty, and feel the love and quiet companionship these animals can share, discovering that they too have a legacy as children of the land."
Child of the Land by Cindy French .......... One of the many short stories in the book Leaning into the Wind, edited by Linda Hasselstrom, Gaydell Collier, and Nancy Curtis.
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