Length54m
About this audiobook
The Soil and the Stem is a Poetic Cinema journey beneath what we see. In the Concrete Garden, flowers discover that every bloom grows from different soil—shaped by history, inheritance, opportunity, obstacles, choices, and unseen conditions. But when an Indigo Iris is suddenly bent by a violent storm, the Garden faces another lesson: never judge the bend before understanding the impact. Through vivid symbolism, humor, emotional intelligence, and cinematic storytelling, Vernon Snell explores the relationship between history and agency, harm and judgment, support and dignity, recovery and responsibility. The Garden learns that understanding where someone came from does not determine where they must go—and being changed by hardship does not diminish their worth.
Look beneath the bloom. Understand the bend. Respect the flower.
Audiobook details
GenrePoetry, Psychology
Length54 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 15, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE SOIL AND THE STEM
26"Nothing."
2the flower.
27THE MORNING AFTER
3PART ONE - THE SOIL
28Then twenty.
4PROLOGUE WHAT LIES BENEATH
29WHEN WE EXPLAIN PAIN TOO QUICKLY
5Rust.
30THE WEIGHT OF BLAME
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6THE UNEVEN GROUND
31Too sensitive.
7Then a piece of old concrete.
32Not to the spectators.
8relationships, timing, and many other factors.
33A soft wrap.
9THE HISTORY IN THE DIRT
34Iris shook in the wind.
10entrance.
35The impact.
11happens next."
36"Refuse lazy certainty."
12"Evidence of something."
37SUPPORT IS NOT A VERDICT
13INHERITED STRUGGLE
38Sometimes no.
14Some inherited warnings.
39The Garden froze.
15THE FAMILY OF WORMS
40needs without listening.
16THE RESPONSIBILITY OF AWARENESS
41AFTER SUPPORT
17Too much shade?
42The Garden changed.
18Good.
43"Yes."
19Seasons.
44Every flower bent.
20protect individual agency;
45WHAT WE DO WITH THE BENT
21FAIRNESS IS NOT A SINGLE FORMULA
46Sometimes a bent stem rises.
22reach.
47The success.
23The Garden woke to the result.
48THE CURATOR - WHY THIS STORY MATTERS
24THE FIRST REACTION
49next.
25The sound.
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