OH, SCHOOL in Postcards 4

Zoe, 2017

Zoe started school today. Margot dropped her off with friends to walk the last several blocks. Seventh grade….I remember it well. I asked George where he was in seventh grade, and he replied Trinidad Colorado…he was back there in the middle of the school year…or the end. He walked six or seven blocks pretty much level all the way. Zoe is living in the middle of a gang territory, so she gets rides in the morning.

I have no idea how I got to school but I clearly remember what I wore: a lined wool tweed pencil skirt, and a seafoam green wool sweater set that I wore at boarding school the previous year. May I add that it was really hot that day. Really hot.

Today Zoe starts school on a cool morning. Escondido has some of those really hot temperatures year round. Schools are air conditioned now. Neither G’s school nor mine had AC. His school was at a high elevation, and mine was a WPA structure…with some beautiful tiles.

Margot reported that Zoe looked really embarrassed when she drove by the gaggle of girls and honked this morning. We all three laughed.
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• Himself: Gym, work, and out to dinner location TBA later.


• Herself: Pool, write, work to photograph the hopefull giant National Thrift Shop day crowds. Quilt…I’m stuck again.


• Reading: Preston&Child: “The Cabinet of Curiosities.” Something new for me as I don’t usually read Child.


• Gratitude’s: That we are here and ok.