Living with a Limp
A severe drought in the southern plains upended things-the food supply, the economy, often the people themselves. A desperate man trades his cotton hoe for a California shovel, hoping his girl from back home might join him soon. A young family meets heartbreak in a desert place. Desperate for answers, they appeal to the only person who might be of help. When a viral disease strikes a home in a different time and place, a mother sits at her young boy’s bedside. She prays he may survive, maybe even walk again one day. A horse, a tractor, a fishing pole, a good friend-all things common to farm life-help shape a child’s growing-up years. Later on he loses his way. Revisiting earlier paths, he longs for recovery. Unsure, yet hopeful a young man limps toward another day, another horizon. To brisk mountain air, to a vision revisited, to a girl he cannot get out of his mind.
