when i was 12 i babysat this girl for a few years and she would come to me and show me her art, drag me by my wrists and point at the pieces she’d made during the week. and she’d be like “do the voice” and i’d put on a sports-announcer olympics-style voice and be like “such form! this level of coloring! why i haven’t seen such perfection in crayola in a long time. and what is this? why jeff, now this is a true risk… it seems she’s made … a monochrome pink canvas…. i haven’t seen this attempted since winter 1932… and i gotta say, jeff, it’s absolutely splendid” and she’d fall back giggling. at the end of every night she’d check with me: “did you really like it?” and i’d say yes and talk about something i noticed and tucked her in.
she was just accepted into 3 major art schools. she wrote me a letter. inside was a picture from when she was younger. monochrome pink.
“thank you,” it said, “to somebody who saw the best in me.”
I use to play this when I was in sixth grade and remember loving it. I bought it again just for “good ‘ol times”. I still liked it but the graphics are not what we are use to. I let my 11 year old nephew play it and he thought it was fun but he said he can tell it is an old school game because of the way it looks. He thought if they fixed that and updated it, it would be cooler and he might want to lay it more. I obviously agree, but I still like it.
Amazon review of Amazon Trail (3rd Edition)
my communication skills have devolved lately into trios of emoji
