Great Day! Reason: Words!

 

This morning I headed straight for the hotel coffee shop to get breakfast. It would be another busy day at my conference, so I needed something healthy. I ordered coffee and oatmeal, and noticed that the nice coffee shop worker had handed me a little paper sack. I took it to my table & looked inside. Nestled deep in the crisp paper sack were dried blueberries, bits of almonds, and brown sugar. Each of those items individually were pretty great, but when I put them all in my oatmeal together, they were better.

That's rather like my conference experience at TCTELA. I had little, awesome moments throughout the day: listening to Georgia Heard read poetry, sitting with my friend Donalyn and talking books & teaching, laughing at Jeff Anderson's always funny jokes and getting inspired by him, hearing Matt de la Pena share his story, and so many many, more. Each moment was great & perfect in itself. But when I put them all in my memory in one place, their preciousness is all the more preserved.

I'll blog about the whole experience when it's over, and when I do I will not be surprised that what made this great experience possible was, of course, books.