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Two Old Women: Book Review

One day, I was browsing the bookshelves of my local library looking for something interesting to read. There’s one particular shelf in an adult section of the library that I like to browse all the time, and it’s one that has books of myth, folklore, and fairytales . I eventually found a book that I had never heard of or read before; Two Old Women . Two Old Women is a book written by Velma Wallis . It is an Alaskan legend of the Gwich’in people that Wallis’s mother told her after they had finished collecting firewood (p. xi). According to Wallis, her mother had told her this story because of an earlier conversation they had while collecting firewood (p. X.) Wallis was amazed by the fact that her mother still collected her own firewood despite being in her early fifties, and despite the work being physically difficult for her (p. xii) According to Wallis, the elders amongst her people would work until they couldn’t move or until they died (p. xii). After talking about these things, her ...

The Princess and Her Pearls

There was a princess with pearls

Deemed holy, good, and bright.

They would shine in the morning sun

And glow brightly in the night.


One day, the princess saw a wild dog,

And she thought, “If it sees the pearls’ great glow.

“It will have a better life. I will give it some pearls.”

So the princess, meaning well, did so.


Then came a wild hog also.

“I’ll give him some pearls too,” the princess thought.

And she, meaning well, gave away

Some other pearls she’d brought.


But the dog and hog trampled the pearls,

So much so they lost their shine.

The dog turned upon the poor princess

And so also did the swine.

***

Inspired by Matthew 7:6.

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