Prune People? Raisin Kids? Water protects us
August 11, 2015
![This mummy is adorned with cartonnage, layers of linen and plaster. Walters Art Museum [Public domain, CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons](https://flood.lunadomo.com/wp-content/uploads/256px-Egyptian_-_Mummy_and_Painted_Cartonnage_of_an_Unknown_Woman_-_Walters_791_-_Detail_C.jpg)
The water inside you is salty, like ocean water.
And if this water dries up, what a life-less prune-person, raisin-kid, mummy-man you would become!
August 11, 2015
![This mummy is adorned with cartonnage, layers of linen and plaster. Walters Art Museum [Public domain, CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons](https://flood.lunadomo.com/wp-content/uploads/256px-Egyptian_-_Mummy_and_Painted_Cartonnage_of_an_Unknown_Woman_-_Walters_791_-_Detail_C.jpg)
The water inside you is salty, like ocean water.
And if this water dries up, what a life-less prune-person, raisin-kid, mummy-man you would become!
As a fish-brain surgeon or a rodeo poem wrangler, I have loved stories. I strongly believe that words – in poetry or prose – help heal our hearts and give us new eyes to see the world. I was first a research psychologist studying brain development at the University of Minnesota and London University before following my passion – writing for children. Learn more…