A Day in the Life (ADL) of Me, prologue
Back in 2000, when I started my career in education as a student teacher/ cross-country coach in Winterport, I had a student named [Bradon]. [Bradon] was in three of the classes I taught, plus he ran cross country, so I saw [Bradon] for half of the day. [Bradon] is about 20 years old now, and if I searched Facebook, I'd probably find that he was an engineering major at UMaine or WPI or something like that*.
(*Just found him. Is art-ish major but still runs. Feel all wrong but was literally matter of putting in name in facebook...)
[Bradon] randomly asked me one day during end-of-day homeroom, in his smart but fun kid, 7th-grade-boy-with-a-lisp, earnest way, "Ms Mwadin, whad is youwr favowite Beatwse awbum?"
I was so touched by the question. I mean, how many 12 year old kids would think to ask their 21 year old student teacher such a question, 32 years after the Beatles had bwoken up?
"Hmmm," I said. "Good question." Norweigan Wood is one of my favorite all-time songs. Sgt Peppers is in the history books for its avant-garde-ness, and I loved every minute of it. But the one that I could play 1 million times without hesitation is Abbey Road. So, I said, "Mmm, that's hard. I would say it's between Abbey Road and Sgt Peppers and if I had to pick one...Abbey Road."
[Bradon]'s face lit up so bright, "Abbey Woad is my favwit too!"
"Yeah, and Sgt Pepper is a close second," I said.
"Me, too," he said, matter-of-factly.
And here is one of many good songs from it:
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