He deigned to notice me today.

"You spend a lot of time staring at plants."  Really condescending. 

"Just studying the interconnectedness of all things."

That got him. "You find that in plants?"

"You find that in books?" I retorted.

That reminded him of who he thought he was and what he thought of me. "Who said you could live in my garden?"

"I have to live somewhere. Anyhow nobody in town wants either one of us."

"Thats not my fault."

"Prove it. Let me stay."

He walked off. I hoped I won. Then I hoped we both won. I went back to my pond.

The rabbi tricked me.

He didn't look like a priest. He even admired my tadpoles. 

"I see God in the interconnectedness of all things."

Then I shoved my foot down my throat. "Why not talk to the wizard?"

"Why not?" and he moved uphill.

They talked three days.

Then the wizard came down with a spade and tore into my lovely pond!

"Hey! The interconnectedness of all things, remember?"

"I need the clay. We're making a golem."

"Whats a golem?"

"It's Jewish. They can use a guardian against the temple priests."

"Whoa. Whatever a golem is, you're not Jewish. And whatever troubles you have with any system, can easiest be solved by harnessing the energies of the system itself to adapt. Work with the priests to change the priests."

"I should be lectured by a beggarwoman in a garden?"

"My wisdom should be mocked because it isn't written Chaldean?"

He slung his baskets of wet clay and went uphill.

I left that night. Breaking any system always provokes wild backlash. I resolved that my daughters would stay away from all wizards and priests, forever.