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Chapter 1: It’s about Time.

Friday, 13th of March, 2020.

In following with an AI template, let’s see. Question: What  is the ‘engine’ of my book?

     Easy! Kids. Students. (Myself included). But ‘engine’?Wait, I thought ‘what is your engine’ referred to- like, the why of this book. I have time, let’s look it up.

Engine is a (n) c. 1300, a "mechanical device," especially one used in war; "manner of construction," also "skill, craft, innate ability; deceitfulness, trickery," from Old French engine "skill, wit, cleverness," also "trick, deceit, stratagem; war machine" (12c.), from Latin ingenium "innate qualities, ability; inborn character," in Late Latin "a war engine, battering ram. "This is etymologically "that which is inborn," from in- "in" (from PIE root *en "in") + gignere "to beget, produce" (from PIE root *gene- "give birth, beget”).

What I meant to say was “Easy! Answer-” My Why is kids. Are kids! Students; (myself included). But engine? Can be used as a device in deceitfulness. Engine, A noun that could  be interpreted as- “the engine of my book are ‘kids’, students’,  (myself included) because kids are the  most vulnerable. Easy to trick young, because they trust. Also they are young developing brains and bodies Requiring time and attention. Like and engine. Beget. Give birth. But that’s another story.

What gives your story momentum and compels readers to keep turning the page? Tense dramatic plot, or emotional investment of a character who evolves over this story?

It’s Complicated. Yet, in our face simple.

What gives me, my memory story, momentum is helping kids. Students. (Myself included).  What makes it complicated is this is not exactly a page turner. Oh, there are tense dramatic plot stories (pubic schools). And most certainly an emotional investment in public education (myself included).

Weather or not I evolve is to be determined. Changed? Most certainly. Evolved? Depends on the definition, but that’s another story too.

For starters, who cares? Evolved or not, I am included in this story simply because I’ve spent my life in public education. 50 years plus.

How shall this school year be shaped?

I took a picture of this bird- as it took a picture of me. Perspective.