Tonight I finished reading a book to the kids that my son had brought home from the library. The book is called Frindle, by Andrew Clements and I think you should read this one, whether you have kids or not. I haven’t read a juvenile fiction book this exceptional in quite a while. It’s about a fifth grader who, in a witty attempt to spite his vocabulary-nazi English teacher, creates a trend of replacing the word “pen” with the word “frindle.” Wackiness ensues, but there is a lesson about the rewards of free thought and originality, the importance of teachers in our lives and language. It’s a great read and very well-written. I loved it and, if I were a reading teacher in the target age range, I would read it aloud to students or recommend it at the least.
I haven’t written up here in a bit – I’ve been busy with this or that or writing in a screened fashion on my livejournal, in which I whine about my life and quote Bright Eyes lyrics. Well, alright I try not to quote them so much anymore. Nonetheless, finally ending my somewhat shameful stubborn streak, I decided I would rather talk to Cassie than sit around pulling my hair. I mean, I have a lot of hair, but not that much. It wasn’t really a decision. Whether or not there remains any future of romance or anything near it for us, I think as humans we fundamentally need to be understood. Those of us who are raving lunatics I think need someone to understand our madness as well and maybe balance us out. Cassie is both to me to a large degree and I’ll risk saying that perhaps, even though I have an open-mouth-insert-foot curse of some sort, I do a bit of the same for her. I really couldn’t hold up not talking to her, not out of some weakness, my stubbornness and resolve generally are pretty steady, but for the fact that maybe I just needed to let go of a few things and that’s exactly what I’ve been doing the last month. Above all things that in two months passed of anxiety, feverish questioning, worry and frustration
today was a good day.
For amusement – some good jazz with quirky lyrics:
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