Grief & Basketball

And other delicately balanced things.

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An incomplete list of things
the kids I teach have experienced:

grief,
violence,
neglect,
disability and disease,
hunger and homelessness,
discrimination.

An incomplete list of things
the kids I teach believe in:

ghosts,
angels,
fate,
their future contract with the Warriors,
the aliens at Area 51,
true love.

(A small reminder that

you don’t have to be unacquainted with “the real world”
to believe it to be enchanted.)

@ Emma Jane LaPlante 2019