Kiddo graduated kindergarten today and I have mixed feelings about it. I’m proud and also a little sad. It just feels like time is moving so damn fast.
Today’s reading
Poem: Birdsong of Shaker Way by Ann-Margaret Lim 2025?
Essay: The Rough Ride by Sandra Hager Eliason 2022
Short Story: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1892
The essay and short story both dealt with mental illness. It’s amazing how far things have come in treating it and how far they still need to go. I remember reading The Yellow Wallpaper in college and being so creeped out by it. Re-reading it today made me wonder if the creepy, moldy, actually alive walls in Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic was inspired by it.
The poem helped clear my head, so here’s an excerpt:
”Every day is perfect, if
when you wake, you hear birds
in the garden, in the yard. Birds”
I didn’t have an image for this post yet, so I searched my photos for June 6 and happened to have a Cedar Waxwing so that gets the featured image spot.
Then I realized I didn’t have a title either and Coldplay lyrics popped in my head “it was all yellow” It’s a love song so this post ends on a double positive note. Yay!
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