Sunday

This is one of my old first grade students, Freddy Farnsworth. He is working on a movie set in Valetta, Malta. He's shaking hands with Brad Pitt in this picture.

Freddy's dad was chief of police when I taught him. Years later, I was sitting on the outside gym steps on the playground of the old, old elemetary school, chaperoning a summer outdoor dance. Freddy came over and sat down with me. He was home on leave from the Marines. He talked a long time about the Marines. He loved it.

Now Freddy lives in California. He has worked as a stunt man in movies, and has been involved in a lot of films about the military as a consultant, and has also had parts in several.

You've come a long way from Pinedale, Freddy!

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Beautiful wet, green day today. Rain on the roof. And the frogs are singing in the hay field across the road.