Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge

In class, Lacy read us the story "Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge". Afterwards she asked us to list five things. Those things were: something warm, something from long ago, something that makes you cry, something that makes you laugh, and something as precious as gold. For something warm I listed my dog Niko when he used to sleep next to me every night. For something form long ago I said a teddy bear that I got the day I was born named "Brownie Bear". Something that makes me cry is any song that has to do with the father daughter relationship and growing up. Something that makes me laugh is a picture from last thanksgiving of my mom and my grandma making silly faces at the camera. And something as precious as gold are lyrics, written on a sheet of notebook paper, of a song my dad had wrote a while ago and I remember telling him he was going to be the next James Taylor.

This page in my journal is one of my favorites so far because it let me relive some very good memories. Although at first I thought it was a little weird that Lacy was reading a childrens book to a group of college kids, I now understand the underying message.