Thinking about the future can be menacing to a youth who is born into an age in which all one hears is the countdown to the end of the climate as we know it.
She is already very smart. Maybe a bit more than I am and that is what I want. A smart daughter.
I and my sisters went to school maybe for a few days in a month. The teachers would ask why we were not in school. “We do not have money for books and paper”, we would reply.
I sell tea. But I also go to school. When I grow up and when I can read and write better, I am going to ask all the old and the young people.
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