“To Change Everything, Change Your Attitude”
Those words are not mine.
Reason #356 I love going to read Scout.
With one motion of her red ink pen, she had the power to destroy your life and chop your work up into neat little bits, but she was the best English teacher in history. Well, at least in my history. She’d hand students back research papers that had been torn to shreds or had so many red marks that they’d been given negative grades, but Mrs. Gearin was, at least, very respected. You either liked or hated her. She either liked or hated you. There was no in between.
I liked Gearin too. She was inspirational and I did my English paper on Tennessee Williams and another on Truman Capote back when Literature gave me a view of the world I didn’t know while I was growing up in a small town before I finally got to see some of it and it became tangible.
And I like Scout. Her post was honest and brave.
Off the cough syrup high. And I meant every word I wrote earlier. I’m talking to someone in particular.
He knows who he is.
Seventh grade English with Mrs. Pentecost was awesome too! She once threatened to hang this huge kid out the window by his toenails for not doing his homework and she called everyone she wasn’t really keen on “Luther.”
Come to think of it, Dresden had a whole lot of really neat teachers.
Tennessee Williams and Truman Capote in Dresden?
You rabble rouser.
Keep on rousing that rabble and fighting that foo.