Humble harvest.SAY IT'S BETHLEHEM--THE "HOUSE OF BREAD--in the best of times. The early barley harvest strains the wagons and bulges the bales on the edge of the plain of plenty. The Lord has remembered his people and sent rain. The famine is a bitter memory. Even so, the weight of the scene is carried by three widows with bent backs and bent wills, heads bowed by loss and need. Their earthbound earth·bound also earth-bound adj. 1. Fastened in or to the soil: earthbound roots. 2. a. eyes scan the stubble. Their cracked hands fill aprons with fistfuls of grain dropped in reckless haste by landlords and hired hands--well-fed husbands with wives who might too soon be widows gleaning Harvesting for free distribution to the needy, or for donation to a nonprofit organization for ultimate distribution to the needy, an agricultural crop that has been donated by the owner. the remnant fruits of every harvest. EVELYN BENCE, a writer and editor living in Arlington, Virginia. Image: The Gleaners (1857) by Jean-Francois Millet millet, common name for several species of grasses cultivated mainly for cereals in the Eastern Hemisphere and for forage and hay in North America. The principal varieties are the foxtail, pearl, and barnyard millets and the proso millet, called also broomcorn millet , Musee d'Orsay, Paris. Photo: Erich Lessing/Art Resource, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . |
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