27: To pick a topic...

I sit in the same place I always do

to write tonight

the five-arm chandelier lights the way

as I scroll through my writer's notebook idea page

my phone's photo album

to pick a topic I can knead and share

There is the picture of a notebook

with the elder little's name on the back

yesterday the smaller little picked it up

flipped it over and handed it back to him

"Reid!  Here is your notebook!"

I marveled...

When did he learn to read?

There is the picture of a diminutive blue Jeep

with the smaller little in the driver's seat

my husband bent over to rescue the triangle

stuck beneath the front all-terrain wheels

I guessed...

That's not what the company meant by all-terrain.  Not tricycles.  

He'll learn to drive safely; first time out season.

Or maybe...

There is the picture of two little guys

roaming around the south side of the house

the elder coached the smaller little 

at his self-sponsored Easter egg hunt

"You're getting clooooooose.  Just look up."

I beamed...

They're getting it.  They are.

Someday they will be friends.

I sit in the same place I always do

to write tonight

the five-arm chandelier lights the way

as I scroll through my writer's notebook idea page -- 

my photo album -- 

to pick a topic I can knead and share

"I write to hold what I find in my life in my hands and declare it a treasure..."

Lucy Calkins

Write on,

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