What did my silence from this blog for so long indicate? And what does her silent reading now show? I’m back at it so I bring all of March 1935’s journals down to Babu. She begins reading and, like every single other time, she tells me: “I’ve never seen Jenete written that way.” Then she…
Month: March 2016
The Second, Third, and Fourth Week of March
Babu celebrates her 17th birthday! Her mother gives her a beautiful compact and her friend gives her a slip – with lace! Babu is up to more shenanigans. The class, and Babu, get answers from another girl for the English test and then she and Sophie use the excuse of the crowd to skip church,…
What I’ve learned so far…
I’ve learned… …that this is important. And it’s important to do now. The blog keeps me accountable but really it’s about the time spent with her sharing the memories and people and retelling her story, the one she wrote, back to her. ….that even though that sounds like I’m doing her a favor, she has…
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