Large Animal Crossing Etcetera is a site of children's stories, memoirs, illustrations, poetry, vignettes, & photography involving memories honoring one life.
I am driving through a small village with myriad off-shooting dirt roads. There are hugely gutted dips and valleys in which one’s car can languish. My goal is to deliver fresh long-stemmed roses, a home-made card, and a home-made chocolate apple-cinnamon cake I’d made. My friends are nursing COVID-19 for him, and a broken hip […]
continue reading One Lovely COVID-19 StoryIf I Stand among war, greed, and hate, You are there. If I Struggle with enough funds to feed my babies You are there. If I Stare down choke-filled family estrangements You are there. If I Hold my dead child while trying to breathe into him You are there. If I am beaten into […]
continue reading You Are ThereIt is my belief we rise by lifting others ~ I put on a pandemic mask early one clear Crystal Lake morning, drive to a flower shop and purchase live velvet-textured red roses. After texting my dear animal-lover friend from teaching years, who taught amazing children; Who, despite battling Parkinson’s Disease oversees the medical care […]
continue reading Who Is Lifting Whom?On the first day of the last quarter of a year filled with global trauma, massive unlistening, hatred, greed, and war, my small solid grey Rescue kitty runs away. Two times he escapes boldly with a cry and a dash then returns home, and begs for more freedom. This, after living with his Rescue […]
continue reading Dustyn Runs Freely