Bounce, Bounce, Shush, Shush

Portrait of Madame Cezanne, Cezanne, 1877

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A thousand years ago, while in graduate school (and, for good measure, eight months pregnant) I taught in a summer program that offered high school students a broad range of readings, writing, a compendium of the program where I went. The kids were sweet and earnest, many of them talented, invested in the thi…