Comments on: “Not to the Swift” — Chapter 5 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/09/21/not-to-the-swift-chapter-5/ Where our past is never very long ago Sat, 25 May 2013 06:15:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/09/21/not-to-the-swift-chapter-5/comment-page-1/#comment-101491 Ardis E. Parshall Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:13:34 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=10809#comment-101491 My mother had me in March and my brother the following February. We were both big deals, I assure you!

]]> By: LAT http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/09/21/not-to-the-swift-chapter-5/comment-page-1/#comment-101431 LAT Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:08:28 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=10809#comment-101431 The lesson may be about something else, but what I’m learning is that a baby in April and then a baby in March is totally no big deal.

]]> By: Carol http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/09/21/not-to-the-swift-chapter-5/comment-page-1/#comment-101038 Carol Thu, 22 Sep 2011 02:49:58 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=10809#comment-101038 Miss Hightowers is just like my fourth grade teacher. It really does make a difference. I’m liking the lesson here.

]]> By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/09/21/not-to-the-swift-chapter-5/comment-page-1/#comment-100745 Ardis E. Parshall Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:33:39 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=10809#comment-100745 When I read this chapter today, I was reminded of being a kid in a small northern California logging town in 1970 or ’71, when a concert pianist came to play for an assembly at the elementary school. He talked to us about Chopin and played a lot. I had never heard such music performed live before.

His name has stuck with me all these years: Dexter Grey. And this morning I googled him and learned that he is Somebody. Maybe he was still in Julie’s semi-professional ranks in 1970, and maybe he wouldn’t play an elementary school today, but he brought a bit of an entirely new world to kids in a cultural-resource-poor mountain town 40 years ago and I’ll never forget him.

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