This made my day. I wish I'd had a chorus teacher like this one.
There's really very little to say, isn't there? I hope you are well, wherever you are. I hope that your loved ones are. I hope that you're finding small ways to stay afloat, to remain connected to something, someone, someplace (real or fictional) that sustains you. Dark and difficult times, indeed. I've rather been holding on to this review. I felt so much, so quickly, so irrevocably for this book that it rapidly became hard to talk about to anyone who hadn't read it. And so I hope I can do it justice, just barely enough justice that, if you haven't, you'll run right out and do so. Now is the perfect time. I feel strongly that this book is what you need in your life at this moment. And so. You might want to prepare yourselves. I'm about to wax rhapsodic. But first, and introductory excerpt: At the end of that session, Fay said, What if it's not what happened with this boy you regret, it's you? It's the you who you left behind. It's ...
That made me smile that's awesome!! What an amazing teacher!
ReplyDeleteoh so great! I loved the kid with the mullet. :o)
ReplyDeleteSomeone get this man some money. He taught elementary school kids to love Phoenix! And they are INTO it! This is awesome.
ReplyDeleteDUDE!!! This man is AMAZING!! How cool!
ReplyDeleteJenn, I know! Those are the kinds of people you want teaching your kids. Man.
ReplyDeleteAlicia, they're all so cute. And so into it!
Aaron, exactly.
Liza, you just want to hug them they're so cool.
What I love is how unabashed the kids are. Every single one of them is into the music and no one is making fun of anyone for it. LOVE IT.
ReplyDelete