This set piece was supposed to be for a PTA arts submission, with the prompt ‘I am hopeful because…’, but I literally got the inspiration for this on the day of the due date. I couldn’t turn it in, obviously, but I still ended up writing it. My writing pursuits were to use repetition in a full circle sort of way (I woke up this morning…) and to describe something in an unique but understandable way, a bit like F. Scott Fitzgerald (The air fresh-start crisp…). I like this piece mostly because I’m impressed with myself. I usually don’t enjoy stories like this, without a real beginning, middle, end, or even a problem to resolve, but this piece, in my eyes, is actually worth reading. The goal isn’t to tell a story or teach a lesson, but to make the reader feel, enough that they cry, or smile, or at least that the piece leaves an impression.