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Learning to listen to Mama I suppose nobody “listens to Mama” more than I did when I was young. But lessons are learned the hard way, and I will caution anyone to take Mama’s words seriously. I was a young wife and wanted to fix a nice flowerbed at my new home. There was a pile of old bricks beside the old cotton gin that my father used to run. But they had been overgrown in poison ivy all summer. I happened to notice in February that the poison ivy was all gone, and I could get to the bricks easily. My mother told me to leave them alone. She said the poison ivy was still on the bricks even if the leaves were gone. But I knew better, and I really needed some free bricks. I collected the bricks in a large flowerbed. Then about a week later, I broke out in a rash. I had poison ivy all over my face, arms, neck and eventually legs, too! It took me months and a doctor’s visit to finally get rid of the entire rash. I should’ve listened to Mama. Barbara Chewning |
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