My First Magic Teacher
Was it by chance that I happened to just find myself standing in the same exact spot by the ocean from years ago? The last time I was at this park, at this point, at this spot, is when their ashes were spread in the ocean. A detour on the parkway, a short cut taken that turned out to be a long cut, and here I was again. At a certain point my parents no longer had any idea what to do with me regarding school. Looking back, I think if there was a military school nearby they would have enrolled me there, and in looking back maybe that would have done me some good. Academically I was a failure, and nobody could figure out why despite all the tests and curriculums, I eventually got tagged as “lazy”. It took me years out of graduate school to realize just *how* I learned, *how* my mind was wired to learn, and once that was unlocked the rest became easy. But, here I was at a new school, with new teachers, and the only subject I seemed to excel at was literature and the classics, sp...