Francesca Forrest's Blog, page 185

more full of leaves

Come away, human child, for the world is more full of leaves than you can ever know.



Come away to where the blackberries grow



Step in, step in deeper, into shadow. There are more fruits there, hidden, sweet, and black.




Who and what were in this world?

Crows saying, autumn's coming. autumn's coming. I know that, crows. I know. I can read cool drenching dews and sharp skies too, you know. I know what blackberries mean.

Also titmice, singing one minute and raising an alarm the next. And something t...

Advice to bullied kids

Little Springtime discovered a column in the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shinbun in which various people offer advice to kids in Japan about how to deal with bullying. She's translated a number of the columns and reads from them and talks about them in this video. The columnists include a model who was bullied as a child and a quadriplegic elementary school teacher who was born without limbs.1

Some of the advice is similar to what we get here, but some of it is different, and I'm fascinated by it...