Where It All Began

From Coop:

In time I began to recognize letters and make attempts at small words, so Mom sent away to a Chicago newspaper for a phonics book. When it arrived, she started at the beginning and worked through page by page…

Dug the remnants of that phonics book out of a box in the barn recently:

Mighty powerful to imagine Mom patiently guiding me through the colored panels on a trip I’m still taking. Once you have learned a vowel…