One of the gifts of this time of year is getting to see all the pics of kids heading back to school in their first-day outfits. It’s such an optimistic moment, though one that reminds me of the years passing. How is that baby now in fourth grade? That lanky child now starting their senior year?
In honor of back-to-school time, I’ve shared this piece by Brad Aaron Modlin in the poetry box. At last weekend’s Write Together Saturday we let it guide us into free writes about the things we wished we’d learned and the things we had to teach ourselves. As the poem suggests, there is much to be learned in school, but sometimes the lessons the classroom can’t teach us are the ones that stay with us longest.
“The English lesson was that I am
is a complete sentence.”
