Castilleja School - Indian Paintbrush Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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brown and yellow neon srgn of hrs employer The fall of darkness, whrch came early on mldwlnter nights was thereby noticed and signalled 1n the trad1t1on that came from habrt ISIIICTWIHU from hrs warm cozy cheerrly llghted hotel to see the first Hakes of the first storm fall was the man ager He waved across the street to the theater owner who had just stuck her hcad out the door of her ofhce to observe the town s gatherrng whlte coyer Fach of the admlnrstrators then smlled patronrzmgly at a number of passers by who were walkmg up the mam street enjoy lnff the exhrlaratron of the cool crisp a1r and the fallmg partlcles of snow whrch slrd down the boys necks and tlekled the fflrls noses Thus the town s one maln street was completely l1t up and alrye wrth at least one fourth of the populace Everyone called out friendly greetrnffs to eyery one else, many old frrends were rsurntcd oyer steammg cups of black coffee as the first cold snowy eyenmg of wrnter progressed The 'VIcGregor krds who l1y ed on the h1ll perpendrcular to the mam street hrll were seen runmng 1nto thelr house and runnmff hack out affaln carrylnff thelr small sleds Sleddrng wa a brt difficult on the 'NIcGreUor h1ll though for at the bottom of the slope a mob of all sorts of people was in the mrdst of an eyrcrtrng snowball fiffht whrch could not be rnterruptr d untll one srde had won The problem was that no one knew or1 whrch srde he was, but that was beside the POIHI In the first snowstorm of the year anythlne could and dld happen I clrmbed IHIO my skl pants and k1 hood wrapped a long wool scarf around my head and carryrnfv my snow boots sat down to put them on rn the not to be trusted straw bottomed chalr on the front porch Fettrng up and brushrnff the s11ow off the water repellent seat of IIN pants I trred my luck at gettmg across the street safely The term safely includes walking across the mam street, whrch had no traffic hght wrthout belnfr h1t by a skrd drng car or a stray or perhaps an armed snowball It takes praet1ce but lt IQ lJ0iQll'JlC for a person to cross that street safely and safely I drd lt Margie, one of the krds from the one and only clique at our small lngh school, crunched up to me rn the snow and sa d lll pI'0dl1Clllf from behind her back a snowball Thrs she managed to cram down the front of my k1 hood before my feeble mrnd realrzed what was happernng This was war' I grabbed the nearest hunk of snow and re pard her by stufling lt down the back of her sk1 pants Berne temporarily subdued she dld not attempt to con trnue the fight Other people rather lrked the ldea how ey er so soon a full scale war w as rn progress and I was lll the Tlllddle of rt' leay 1110 tl11s scene my home let us trawl to a large crty 111 'I heaylly populated sectron ofCal1forr11'1 On all srdes people hurrred by sttpprng on toes not e1r1ng at all whether they jostlcd someone or knotked someone oyer Clutchmg thelr endless B1 ll or Whrte House or I Maffnm strlng tred boxes, they soon faded no1s1ly 1nto the fov Therr colors, the gravs and blacks of thelr clothing harmonrzed wrth the enclosing mrst Clack, clack they walked down the street, whrch was crowded and yet so empty They completely lgrrored one bewrldered person who stood alone tryrng to find her way out of the maze of rushlng people The people neyer stopped thev came as surely as the fog as norslly as the rasplng whistle of the doormen attemptmg to attract the attentlon of yel low blue and whrte red and green cabs I finally turned around and began walklng Whrch home was mme? The San Franclsco of my birth or the small town of my love? A home I said to my self lS merely the house 1n yvhreh one lryes to which one 1s sentrmt ntally attached 'No one half of nu argued the word home ha much broader rneamnff Your home IS your place of refuge and comfort, where all love you and all rs loved by you Your frrends your famrly, your mountalns, your sp rrkhnff blue sky all comprise your home I short your home IS a place which you loye Do you realrze one half of me sald to the other half that th1s grrl does not know where her home lS9 She loy ed her home yet she cannot choose between a c1tV of her blrth and a town whlch lg a part of her',' Do you th1r1k the other half began that she knows that she loyes her home? Does she apprecrate rt? of one mrnd I have learned where my home 1S Home IS where the heart IQ and my heart rs ln the small town where I am presently llvrng You see'7,' sald one half of me to the other half She has learned something by going away to that school She loyes her home Ha' Do you th1r1k she apprecrates 1t9 When she left she drdnt want to come back What krnd of love IS thatw, I pulled both halves back together I do appreciate my home, I admrt that I dldnt really appreciate rt whrle I was there, but llurnan nature' exclalmed one half of me Vvhy arc humans new r satlsfled wlth what they lraye untrl they are deprly ed of ltw, The oth r half the angelic half Im sure waited courteously untrl the first half was qurte Hnrshed then added sweetly Her heart rs there rn her home She knows and loyes lt for rt means more to her than just a hous It ls a part of her as she IQ a part of 1t Thus lt wrll be forey er for our grrl has come home Wrth the utmost strength I collected my two halyes and walked sertnely down the street quretly happy m the thought that I had a home Home I thought rs definrtely where the heart IS The problem arlses ln dlS coverlng where your heart IS FRANCES DI CHRISTINA V V V . . 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