Runner

Back before Kindergarten, Principal Rhine at Oxford told us: "He's a runner." Alex would get worried, or lose track of us, and suddenly be...across the schoolyard, or out the door, or two blocks away back home, having run across busy intersections and inspired the concern of strangers. Last week, it was school. School has been rough because it increasingly demands a whole lot of writing, and German school even more so because switching into another language at the end of a long school day is just tiring. So Alex, having big feelings, decided to follow the sound of singing and sit in on a chorus practice instead. Yikes.