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Make a Paper Chain. Book Launch Countdown!

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Paper Chain Countdown

My sister and I made paper chains to count down to any exciting occasion. Gracie Lee and her little sister made paper chains, too. With so many things to count down, including lots of family birthdays, I decided it was high time I reinstitute the paper chain countdown. I’m starting today and counting down to the launch date of The Accidental Salvation of Gracie Lee.

January 28, 2016 is only 71 days, y’all!

This chain is fancier than the regular construction paper ones my sister and I made. Cooler paper choices = one of the benefits of being an adult in 2015 compared to a child in the seventies. I was a little bit ecstatic to use all the paper scraps I’ve been saving.

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making a paper chain

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photo courtesy of morgueFile

The old ladies were right, as old ladies often are.

They crocheted and drank Folgers throughout the afternoon while lamenting the passage of time as though this was a bad thing.
For me, time crawled. Days blended together imperceptibly, a string of sameness.
I was forever counting down to something—Christmas Eve, minutes until the bell rang, my next birthday when life would be exciting and different by the mere advancement of age. Twelve would be better than eleven… It had to be. Wasn’t that how life worked?
Did the simple process of counting down, stop time? Like Nana always said, a watched pot never boils… Even so, my sister and I tracked slow-motion days with hand-made, multi-colored construction paper chains sticky with Elmer’s glue. Elmer’s glue was an important part of the fun.
With each broken link, we celebrated. One link, one day…until finally the special day arrived. And then z-o-o-o-o-m, it was over. Just like that. With no need for a chain, lake days sped by, Christmas break ended in a flash.

Maybe it was the chain that slowed things.

Maybe we all better start making paper chains. 

talya
“Time is a game played beautifully by children.” 
― Heraclitus, Fragments

Musical Pairing:

No Time, The Guess Who

Sunday Letter: March 16, 2025

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Hello, Sunday Letter friends!

It has been a crazy busy week with rollercoaster weather! Sunshine. Storms. Gusty winds that blew thick dust in from Oklahoma and sent anything untethered flying. Forty tornadoes swept through eight states on Friday night, including Arkansas. We even saw wildfires!

I hope everyone reading this is okay. I have a feeling we are in for one crazy spring season.
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