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To Grace

Grace

When Daddy and Noah took off for a ride, I couldn’t stop thinking about what they were talking about Was Daddy beingto be okay alone with my father?

Alex walked up to ave arden with our arh Gram’s, I couldn’t help but feel a sense of cal et to work as she took a seat

Laughing, I said, "There’s nothing to do, Earden so well taken care of there isn’t a weed to be found"

Tilting her head, she stared into ether, I repeated what she said, "Dig?"

Alex giggled and slowly dropped down and did exactly what her great-grandmother told her to do

"So you wanther head, she said, "Yes, Grace I want you to just dig"

There was so in the dirt that relaxed me It always had and I knew Gra , I found a spot and dropped to arden shovel into the dirt, I scoped out soot lost in thought as I thought about how Noah had been acting the last couple of weeks since his mother passed away I’d readied myself for him to break down, but he never did

He was relaxed

Too relaxed

All the ti in deeper as I closedpill I didn’t think much of it as I walked into the room and saw him put it in hisOne to two hours a night Maybe inhe needed it