Brief life

He was birthed into the world on the farm his parents worked. He was industrious and responsible and began each workday by picking up a handful of dirt and letting it crumble through his fingers. He was the only one of the 3 boys who didn’t go away to college and stay gone. He took a sturdy, reliable woman for a wife and had kids of his own. He was a student of the weather, which made him the best damn farmer in the area. When his wife died in childbirth, he managed the boys and the farm alone. When he died, each of the boys threw a handful of dirt into the open grave and watched it hit the coffin and crumble.