Art & Soul Short #52
Photograph by Kim Manley-Ort Cradle of Life Clara found the hollow place while walking. At the north edge of her family’s eastern Nebraska dairy farm, she saw a fallen tree. She shouldn’t have been there. She was afraid of the neighbor’s growling, jaw-snapping, black and white sheep dog because it knew exactly the boundaries of its master’s property. But the dog was absent. The partially decayed tree trunk, brown-grey as driftwood, bark-bare and splitting, beckoned her. She f