I took Anna to school with me yesterday to attend a poetry reading (Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass). One of my coworkers was responsible for putting it on, so I figured I’d drop by for a while. We got there around 9:30 a.m. (the reading actually started at 7:24 a.m.!), and we stayed for a couple hours.
And, I might as well take her to things like this since she was accidentally named after a poem. Gotta keep the poetry alive!
CUTE guys too!
Looks like so much fun…
Good job Mama.
I was one of the few girls there, too! (And at one point, the ONLY girl)
I work with a couple of the guys who were at the reading, and even though I’m not interested in either of them (because I simply don’t know them well enough yet), I can’t help but wonder what it would be like to date a poet… it would be SO romantic! (well, at least from the fantasy I’ve created in my head!)
*sigh*
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