The simple lesson of the alchemist
The request was simple. “I need a brown tunic,” my son said matter-of-factly. It was my third and final go-around helping create a character from the Middle Ages, a presentation that marked the culmination of a sixth grade social studies unit. We had cobbled together costumes for a baker and then a breadmaker’s wife when his sisters had completed the same project. Surely there was something around the house that would suffice for his assigned character, an alchemist. I ran through some ideas that involved recycling old Halloween costumes, none of which were brown. “It has to be brown,...
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