found-art tuesday : what is this green stuff?

Last week, Tess decided that she wanted to buy lunch at school. She talked about it, worried about it (where to put her money, how to ask for the food, what they might have for lunch, how to make sure it was vegetarian, how to carry her money and the tray). SHE WAS TRIUMPHANT! And, of course, she started writing about her lunches everyday. I just found her first lunch story. She typed it up on the home computer and printed it out. I found it in the printer tray.

In it, I believe there is much about the human condition. It is a tale of a six-year-old getting her first hot lunch at school, but look in between the lines and you'll see much about living. What IS that green stuff? Maybe we don't like it ... or maybe we just haven't tasted it yet. Maybe we spend a lot of time wondering about it. 

today i got school lunch. i had

pineapples, a potato with sour

cream, and this green stuff. It all

was yummy, except i didn't

actually like the green stuff

yet. Maybe i just havent tasted it

yet. Maybe i just did't know what it

was. I was wondering what

that was for almost the whole

lunch time! But it was just half of

the lunch time. The pineapples,

and
the potato, and also the salad

was good.

 -Tess Ptak

Comments

[Liz]

What a 'glass half full' kind of girl! I love how she leaves open the possibility of liking the green stuff at some point. Makes me wonder where I could shift my perspective to "maybe I just don't like it YET."

[Bev Jones]

wow they get to use money at the school . . . amazing, since first grade here they had to know the social security and a pin #, not so bad after middle school, but a lot of trauma to memorize all those numbers when all you really want is to try the pineapple and the green stuff.

Kudos to Tess

[zenmomma]

I love this! We've tried to use that phrasing with our kids. Did she come up with that on her own? Great!

[Suzanne Deal-Fitzgerald]

Only vegetarians would feel that way about the green stuff.