Possibility
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein
I dwell in possibility. – Emily Dickenson
I’ll never get this.
Only two weeks into the school year, and already I’ve heard this more times than I could possibly count.
My sweet girl, deeply thoughtful and highly-motivated – with skyscraper-high expectations of herself (no, I have no idea where she gets that from) – tends to say this at the first sign of trouble:
first misspelled word in Phonetics Zoo,
first wrong note in piano,
first mistake on her math worksheet.
So the first few days of the school year ended with tears for both of us.
Never mind that it’s been a rather teary summer.
Lana Meredith 