monday masterpieces

and a warm welcome to prism

Whatever earth-tilt science-magic is happening right now, the autumn equinox is when the sun hits the zillions of prisms in my home in a way that perfectly projects rainbows everywhere!

It’s finally autumn, and I’ve been feeling that back-to-school-with-sharpened-pencils-and-a-new-Trapper-Keeper sort of vibe all month. When a subtle, early-fall breeze was blowing in through my opened window last week, I was overcome by a sensory memory of sitting in my 9^th grade English class in 1989, taught by Mrs. Hathaway. One of the requirements for this class was to turn in what she called a “Monday Masterpiece” every Monday. The Monday Masterpiece was a weekly, topical, creative writing assignment wherein we could write on a loose theme using any format we desired and express ourselves freely. She’d choose a few each week to be read aloud to the class. This was my favorite part of every week, so I decided to reestablish that practice here, 34 autumns later, creating and sharing a brand new, playf…