Dirt

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

~ Alice Walker

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When people say someone is grounded or down to earth, I wonder how literally they mean it. I think that to be those things you have to get a little bit dirty. Being authentic is not being clean. Being authentic is doing work. 

Other times when someone says a person is grounded they mean that person got in trouble and can't come out to play. 

Words are magic.