inspiration

...when I worked at an elementary school a few years ago, a group of third grade girls were completely convinced that they were in communication with ghosts from the graveyard adjacent to their playground. One day after recess I checked under a stone where the girls had been leaving notes to the ghosts all week... and I took the notes home with me. Although I didn't lead them on by writing back, I like to imagine that just removing the notes made them feel validated in their writing to the spirits.