One’s relationship with a desk, after all, can be formative
I text my son and daughter-in-law. What does Lylah want for her birthday? My granddaughter is turning eight and I don’t always know what’s cool in her world. I want to get it right. There are the popular video games her friends play. There are mountains of movie tie-in toys. She has outgrown dolls and she’s not into clothes yet.This is a child after my own heart! How many eight year olds want a desk for their birthday? I am charmed by the ask and more than happy to set her up. .
The desk was heavy to move when I changed addresses, but it was sturdily built and survived several upheavals. When I married and started my teaching career I spent countless hours marking at that desk. Piles of student essays and tests almost buried it and I remember weeping onto its surface when I was overwhelmed with work and couldn’t face one more mangled, illegible student essay about bloody Macbeth’s tragic flaw.
The children grew up and I returned to teaching, once more transforming my desk into a different kind of work station. More marking. More lesson planning at that familiar site.came the opportunity to do some writing of my own and the desk that supported an electric typewriter in my university days is now home to my laptop. The desk has outlasted a century of change. But now it doesn’t work. It was designed in a different age, for writing, with a pen. The height is all wrong for a laptop.
I scroll and scroll until I find it. It has the sleek wood and metal look that will suit my son and daughter-in-law’s minimalist townhouse. But it also has three shallow drawers across the front for the crayons and markers that will need a home.
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