gag me with a spoon, stab me with a rusty screwdriver

[neigedens]

There are places where you can find beautiful, wild things caged up so they can be looked at and admired whenever you care to see them. Some, however, realize that truly beautiful things are ones that are free. A little girl comes to this realization in "A White Heron" by Sarah Orne Jewett.

Ugh, isn't that awful? I fail at writing introductions for Speech team pieces life.

Comments

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, it is. But once again, I am astonished at how much more mature you are than your age - the average late-teen-agers would hail this as a model of poetic feeling and political insight, and wave it around as evidence of his/her "concerned"-ness. I remember when I was your age...

[neigedens.livejournal.com]

If you start talking about walking to school uphill in a stowstorm every day, I swear, I'll be angry. ;D

[fpb.livejournal.com]

ER, no. Not much snow in Rome in the winter (it happens occasionally, but not even once a year) and we used buses.