Colonial Roads

Enriching life. Creating adventures. DMV Centric.

  • Home
  • Daycations
  • Community Guides
  • Pic to Click (P2C)
  • Cars & Commuters

First Thing: Rain and Sun

They would crawl out of tents and shanties.

breath sending up swirls of steam

hands and faces flushed red with cold.

Men and boys, women and daughters on hands and knees

planting life deep into unspoiled earth.

 

The men, crouched down on haunches

thrust hard hands

into black soil and looked to the sky:

Please God just a little rain and sun,

not too much of either one

please make this harvest a bountiful one

 

They would come out of their homes

Men and boys, women and daughters still on hands and knees

planting the future in a lush, green sea

 

The men, crouched down on haunches

thrust hard hands into black soil. And looked to the sky:

Please God just a little rain and sun,

not too much of either one

please make this harvest a bountiful one

 

Tents and shanties, villages to towns

Towns to cities

and men and boys, women and daughters

do not ever

get their hands dirty

and no one ever

talks to God anymore.

April 10, 2017 Brian Chee

Post navigation

Farmers’ Market at Stone Springs → ← Egg Hunt at Bull Run Regional Park

Related Posts

First Thing: The LCD

Advertising doesn’t have to be crass. It doesn’t have to appeal to the lowest common denominator, or force someone to “click here” or “call now.” There is direct marketing and […]

First Thing: Good Thoughts

What are you thinking about? According to the National Science Foundation, thoughts careen through our heads at the rate of 50,000 or so per day. That’s around 45 thoughts per minute, […]

First Thing: June 1, 2016

Confidence. Not arrogance. We force our kids to study for hours. We push them to try out for club sports, and encourage them to spend day after day learning all […]

Recent Posts

Autumn Portraits at Stone Bridge

Autumn Portraits at Stone Bridge

Attention all autumn shutter bugs and painters… The clock has already started ticking on your fall family portrait window. The clock has already started ticking on your fall family portrait [...]

More Info
Northern Virginia Leaf Peeping Adventure Guide: Treks and Tips

Northern Virginia Leaf Peeping Adventure Guide: Treks and Tips

The Ultimate Northern Virginia Leaf Peeping Guide While changing weather patterns and warmer weather aren’t ideal for releasing the vivid foliage we all look forward to seeing, there are [...]

More Info
Fall Fantastic in Virginia

Fall Fantastic in Virginia

There is nothing like Autumn in Virginia. Sure, summers in California are amazing, and Utah winters are breathtaking in their majesty. But once October turns up and the air gets […]

More Info
The Gold Cup Races

The Gold Cup Races

Take delight in wide open spaces and fill your lungs with fresh air while participating in the wonders of horse country. The Virginia Gold Cup steeplechase races are favored local […]

More Info

Get Social With Us

Powered by WordPress | theme Dream Way
Manage Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}