God Given Talent
Aine at Blue Raspberry Sunday gave the prompt writing about a talent that you or an ancestor had. Since I am trying to write my stories for my family about me, it will be a talent I have. A talent I have been blessed with would be called God given. I did nothing to develop it, it is just me. I was blessed with the talent of looking outward and caring for others. Looking back one incident that stands out to me, probably not the first time I had done, but a memorable experience; was when my mother caught the hillside on fire. We live halfway up a sizable hill, not a mountain, but definitely could wind you if you walked up it. (Side note: Rocky Mountain states say Oklahoma mountains are hills. J ) In the 1950s, people burned their trash in the country. My dad, to be safe, had a 50 gallon barrel with a mesh wire top to keep the fire contained. This day, my mom had lifted the lid to add some paper to what she was already b...