Great Friday

 In orthodox Christianity you do not work today.  I always felt a need to do something.  Out in the garden one year away from everyone I was angry and started turning some dirt over.  We had a large garden on the side of hill next to a brick factory.  The hill destined to be gone was all our for the time being.  Discarded car seats are not hard to find outside of town.  I was just opening up a flower bed along all the drought tolerant bounty.  We didn't have water there, but they had local wisdom.  Our yield would change with the rains but never nothing.

I had all of the anger in my arms turning over dirt till I forgot what I was mad about and could see what I had created.  It wasn't a question in my mind.  More like seeing a face.  I had dug the outline of Ohio.  I knew this flower bed would be gone and I would find myself again in Ohio.  There was a big rock in the place of Cleveland something to climb.  I found mostly rounded stones and placed them along the path.  there was a bathroom available for our newest.  You can learn everything in a garden.

The orthodox they called themselves but they all grew up communist.  They didn't really seem to understand either, but importance was important in Serbia.  Many go to church in Ohio, but few know their god parents well.  Nobody ever seemed to go to church in Serbia unless they had to, but the majority saw their god parents everyday.  They attend the celebration of each others saints.  Maybe we used to do these things.  Maybe it is only good here.




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