Attuning Cursively (Flowingly)
by PenDell Pittman, Thornton, CO « contact PenDell » Decades ago, amid my wonderment as an odd five-year-old beginning 1st-Grade a year earlier than most, I told my (after-school chauffeur) Mom about my first-ever experience of writing Words (Not just coloring with preschool Crayons)! After exuding over my own new, yellow, No.2 Pencil, I quoted my teacher, Ms. Heffington’s, words, “Take good care of your pencil now. Before long, You will be writing Curses!” “What are curses, Mom?” I asked — to which my mother fell silent (intent on driving us safely home, I guessed). Later, when again I
