Working It All Out

2024-07-23 “Working It All Out” by Emma

I’m sitting in my bedroom on my bed, as you can see in the picture. Jenn is in the living room reading about different things to do with all the years she skipped. Merritt’s at work. It’s his second day. He said Monday was real fine, an’ ever’body was nice. He says he’s gonna be just fine with the work for now, ‘cause it’s just math and measuring things, so not knowing all the stuff he skipped for 40 years won’t matter.

I wanna say, just to get it out, I was a little worked up yesterday. After all day at the pool together on Sunday, and a nice dinner, something hit me about how much outta place I am. 

It ain’t just skipping 144 years. Say I didn’t do nothing but move from a tenant farm to Brooklyn… Ever’thing is so different. I don’t even s’pose cotton would grow much in Brooklyn on account of the climate being different. 

Anyway, I was saying how everything just sort o’ settle on me yesterday. I teared up for a little while, but I knew that’d amount to nothing good. But I pulled it together. I made a bubble bath, too!

I felt a lot better when Merritt got home with his good story about his work, and we had a fun evening. Jenn and me made a nice meal, then we all went for a walk and ended up at that park where I took the swing picture a few days ago. It was a nice time.

Well, that’s much of a story, but I wanted to tell everybody what was going on.

Me an’ Jenn was talking about the time traveling we did, and we can’t figure out why it happened. We gotta believe something is behind it all, and there’s a reason, but we jus’ can’t work out what it is. Merritt can’t neither.

But we think there’s gotta be something.

Well, that’s about all. 

I have to say one more thing. I showed my picture to Jenn before I posted. She was surprised my pajama top was unbuttoned.

I wudn’t trying to be naughty. I was just changing when I got a mind to tell my story, so I pulled it back on. Jenn says it’s cute and not to worry. 

Tell me if you think I shouldn’t o’ posted it. I’m still trying to learn all this.