found-art tuesday : what is this green stuff?

School lunch tray Last week, Tess decided that she wanted to buy lunch at school. She talked about it, worried about it (where to put her money, how to ask for the food, what they might have for lunch, how to make sure it was vegetarian, how to carry her money and the tray). SHE WAS TRIUMPHANT! And, of course, she started writing about her lunches everyday. I just found her first lunch story. She typed it up on the home computer and printed it out. I found it in the printer tray.

In it, I believe there is much about the human condition. It is a tale of a six-year-old getting her first hot lunch at school, but look in between the lines and you'll see much about living. What IS that green stuff? Maybe we don't like it … or maybe we just haven't tasted it yet. Maybe we spend a lot of time wondering about it. 

today i got school lunch. i had

pineapples, a potato with sour

cream, and this green stuff. It all

was yummy, except i didn't

actually like the green stuff

yet. Maybe i just havent tasted it

yet. Maybe i just did't know what it

was. I was wondering what

that was for almost the whole

lunch time! But it was just half of

the lunch time. The pineapples,

and
the potato, and also the salad

was good.

 -Tess Ptak

About Patti Digh

Patti Digh is an author, speaker, and educator who builds learning communities and gets to the heart of difficult topics. Her work over the last three decades has focused on diversity, inclusion, social justice, and living and working mindfully. She has developed diversity strategies and educational programming for major nonprofit and corporate organizations and has been a featured speaker at many national and international conferences.

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