I'm walking on the stairs in Junior High School. Zimmerman is walking toward me and passes me a note. I automatically assume it's a love note, since she's been trying to get close to me. "How juvenile!" I tell myself. (I am an adult attending school.) How can I justify to my boss the time I spend here? It's a good educational review of the basics, I guess.
I open the note and read it. It's from my daughter, actually. I reach the bottom of the stairs and exit the school and walk to the edge of the school grounds. There are some students gathered there. I walk a bit beyond them. I notice the highway and large pond across from it. This is the spot that some students have been killed trying to cross the highway.
There has been a great deal of rain lately, and the pond is overflowing across the highway and onto the path I'm walking. I turn to go back. The water is much deeper now -- over my knees! I'm almost tempted to lay forward into the water and swim. But I realize that I'm fully clothed and would get even more wet than I am.
Friday, January 20, 2012
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