Your Elegant Future

To my students in May:
You’re leaving this time, this place. It’s May already. (That’s a verifiable fact.) It’s an analysis of the fact to say that May has 31 days and includes Mothers’ Day, Memorial Day, and the spontaneous holidays that occur after months of Wisconsin winter marking the slow upswing into summer (the first weekend when everyone gets sunburned if they go outside). Tara countdowns the days every morning in homeroom and we all deal with what that means to us. We’re together every day for 185 days and then we’ll never be together again, which no one understands, really. Even if we think we know what that means, we don’t.

For some of you, this might be the first time your daily routine has been disrupted completely, but for all of you, including me, we all decide if that time that is perfect or useless.

One of you looked up during silent independent reading time and asked what you should do if you have a question mark inside of parentheses...inside of a question (requiring a question mark?)?  If there’s a question mark inside of a parentheses inside of “question mark”, you end up with a sentence of question marks.

A sentence of question marks is as elegant as the future.