My first novel, A Place With Dragons, opened with an acknowledgement “To You the Reader,” suggesting that each of us “keep a wary eye on life’s quiet shadows” because we’re apt to “find dragons in the most unexpected places.” Yesterday, I found one…
While putting part of a new fence in place, I spotted a lattice of sparkling of purple on something buried in the mud where I was working. It didn’t look like a rock, and it had the peculiar look of miniature scales. “Ridiculous!” I thought. But, since my daughter is a budding geologist, I guessed it might be fun for me to dig it out and let her determine what it was. I plopped the strange lump of sticky, clay mud inside an old coffee can for her to clean up; a little while later, after applying several baths of water and some scrubbing from an old toothbrush to remove the casket of mud surrounding it, she showed me what it was…a dragon head.
For those of us who might sometimes begin to think the magical reality of other-worldly adventure feels too far away, take heed!… Perhaps we do live in a place with dragons…
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