Chilly Pepper Children by Barbara Ellen Meyer-Spidell circa 1994

Chilly Pepper children playing in the dark soil, preparing for Mother's planting of the season, their brother and sisterly love not at work, but the rivalry subsides for the time being, while they bid their Mother's pleasure, and she graces them with a smile.


Chilly pepper children are like their Father, their Mother is reminded weekly by their hostilities sometimes, and daily, by their joys and sorrows.

Chilly Pepper children created out of the heat's passion, flavored by God's own green thumb. Who would have known their wild seasoning would be so much admired for it's unique character?


Chilly pepper boy and Chilly pepper girl. Chilly pepper children now inhabit the world; a world where all inhabitants are somewhat alike, a world where the Father leaves and another fills his shoes, to cultivate the earth in which they grow, called the chilly pepper blues....


Chilly pepper Ronnie works his day, in and out, with natural rythym to carry on where the planter failed. He hadn't a plow when he first approached the green fertile soil that had already brought harvest, but he brought the sickle to harvest that wheat, when he found chilly peppers growing beneath his feet. So he came to show another man how to raise this fruit, and then he rolled up his sleeves and tied the laces of his boot.

He started by harvesting the chilly pepper kids, and set about to find the green acre, and started it afire and brought forth the greenest of the soil, and decided to grow on the land, that was now his, an image of himself and his maker.



I was in love with Ronald Kent Meyers at the time, we got engaged in 1994 was it? I changed my mind for personal reasons.