LESSON 3<\/p>\n
EXERCISE 1:
\nCome up with at least 5 details about your childhood bedroom.<\/p>\n
My bed was in the middle, the head of the bed against the wall.\u00a0 When I\u00a0lay\u00a0in bed, Jonathan’s crib was on my left. I think I was 4 or 5 when I slept in that room.<\/p>\n
The floor had\u00a0kelly green color linoleum with raised flower patterns.\u00a0 Jonathan and I loved to take a paper and shade a crayon to get the flower pattern on the paper.<\/p>\n
One night in my bed in the middle of the room, my finger started irritating me. I looked down and saw the\u00a0twistie tie from the produce section of the grocery store, that I had tied around my finger earlier, to create a beautiful green ring. But now it was tight and my finger was swelling up and turning red.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u00a0got up and went inside where I found my father and Roxanne talking by the front door in the living room in the soft evening lamplight. I showed them my problem and Roxanne helped get it off while my father waited. She was probably only 10 or 11 years old.\u00a0 \u00a0I feel good; there is no judgement. Gentleness. A vapor of love slowly comforting me.<\/p>\n
I sometimes climbed into Jonathan’s crib with him to play. Fun. Exciting. Silly.<\/p>\n
Once my mother came in at night to bathe Jonathan and change his diaper. She said she’d be back in five minutes. Almost instantly I am standing in the doorway of the bathroom, “Is five minutes up yet?\u00a0\u00a0I just waited there until she was done.<\/p>\n
Memories. Warm and soft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LESSON 3 EXERCISE 1: Come up with at least 5 details about your childhood bedroom. My bed was in the middle, the head of the bed against the wall.\u00a0 When I\u00a0lay\u00a0in bed, Jonathan’s crib was on my left. I think … Continue reading