All you need is your fourth grade notebook...

I remember it vividly.  Mrs. Dame's fourth grade class.  Learning my multiplication tables via flash cards and "time tests".  Making friends in a new town.  Recess on cold days was filled with laughter at the outcome of our Mad Libs workbooks (filled with adjectives we could barely spell).  And then there was creative writing time.  Each week Mrs. Dame would start a simple drawing on a page in our notebook.  Maybe it was a series of triangles or perhaps a squiggly line but she gave all each of us the same start.  Then it was off to our seats to finish the drawing in whatever way made sense to us.  The catch was that once it was finished we had to write about it.  Some days the story came before the drawing and at times it was the other way around.  It's not unlike the way photography comes to me.  Sometimes there is a story in my head when I go to take a picture and other times I take the picture and find a story.  The latter is true today.

















Here is my drawing for the day.  I'll let you write your own story...

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