14 March 2006
meeting the bus
His birth mother couldn't feed him. She had to leave him, a wee toddler, at the orphanage, telling him that she was going to go get some food. He says, of that time, "My girl she no come back."
The ache in his voice is almost unbearable.
........
It's time for the kindergarten bus to arrive.
The bus whistles to a stop and the door opens. The driver calls out, "Here's [Six's] Mama!"
Six waits for me to pick him up off the bus steps. I reach for him saying, "And I am SO GLAD to be [Six's] Mama!"
His smile is incandescent.
The ache in his voice is almost unbearable.
........
It's time for the kindergarten bus to arrive.
The bus whistles to a stop and the door opens. The driver calls out, "Here's [Six's] Mama!"
Six waits for me to pick him up off the bus steps. I reach for him saying, "And I am SO GLAD to be [Six's] Mama!"
His smile is incandescent.
