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Sacred Chickens Classic: Planting Bulbs

1/20/2021

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Planting Bulbs or...
I Hate Winter


by Julie Carpenter



This is an old piece, written when I lived on a little farm in Fayetteville, TN. I now live in Atlanta with a much smaller yard and somehow I planted my bulbs even later this year - in January.  Some things never change. 

This is hope.  Fat at the bottom. Pointed and slender at the top.  The bulb is wrapped in onion skin and a little bit dirty.  I am angry at it.  “I don’t believe in Spring any more,” I tell it.  I look around as if to prove my point; the trees are bare and somehow an old paper cup has escaped the trash can and is slowly dissolving into the lawn next to the bed where the bulbs will spend the winter.  The crepe myrtles reach frantically skyward with their bare rust colored arms, as if they died of fright.  That misshapen red bud that has to lean away from the clutch of the cedars just to breathe is bare as well; grabbing my hat with its skeleton hands whenever I walk past it to go to the barn. The leaves are morphing into dirt under the naked trees or becoming paper shadows of themselves.  It is, of course, cold.  Barely above freezing.  The universe conspires to make sure the 
only days I can plant bulbs are either cold or wet….and always, always windy. It's December. Two days after Christmas.




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A Word From the Chickens

1/13/2021

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Announcements and Apolgies

Sacred Chickens Staff






Hello Chicks and Chickens and all you groovy birds who read our blog!  You will have noticed that we have been posting a bit less recently. Why? It’s not because we don’t love you.
 
Julie is writing a novel and is right (or write) in the middle of the knottiest part of tearing apart Hell. Trust me, that last sentence will make sense when you read the book. 
 
Jarad is in the midst of a new temporary job, a hunt for a permanent job and a move. By the way, he’s up for some freelance writing and content creation. You can hit him up at [email protected].
 



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Book Reviews: Polar Bear and the UFO & The Cabinet of Curiosities.

1/7/2021

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Two Book Reviews

by Julie Carpenter
 

We would like to introduce our readers to two books by author Cynthia C. Huijgens, The Boy Between Worlds: The Cabinet of Curiosities, a middle grade book that helps readers unlock a world of magic and history, and Polar Bear and the UFO, an illustrated children’s’ book with a whimsical and beautifully rendered combination of the Artic and Outer Space!

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Sacred Chickens Classic: My Last Garden

1/1/2021

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Mourning a Garden 

by Julie Carpenter 





I wrote this piece after leaving my little farmhouse in Fayetteville, TN. I spent a brief time living in a condo and missing my garden terribly. I now have a new garden and new thoughts but I thought I'd go back to this moment for a minute and reflect on losing a part of myself and moving on. 

My garden now consists of a table full of house plants I saved from the little farm in Fayetteville, TN. By way of confession, I actually bought a few more plants, a pot of primroses and a tiny orchid, regardless that there is no more room for them in this little place.  Soon we’ll be forced to wear potted plants as hats.  Crow has already attempted to use one as a litter box.      
   




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