Attached please find your official schedule for the community partnership program with Leaf & Letter.
As discussed, you will be volunteering your time, as available,over the next eight (8) weeks. The schedule below serves as our working outline and is subject to coordination with the shop owner.
Three (3) weekly shifts for approx. two (2) hours.
Time and day to be determined by Juliette Gianelli.
Beginning this Monday.
Please confirm receipt and advise if you have any conflicts.
Best regards,
Carol Mason
City Outreach Coordinator
I stare at the screen. Two-hour shifts, three days a week, over eight weeks? As we lead up to the play-offs?
“What’s that face?” Campbell asks.
I look up. “What face?”
“The face you’re making. Like you just realized something. If there was a lightbulb over your head, it would be on right now.”
I lock my phone. “Nothing. I’m looking at my schedule for the plant shop.”
“And?”
“And it’s three days a week, two hours a day. Eight weeks.”
Ty’s scrolling through his own phone now, probably looking at game film. “Could be worse. At least it’s not trash pickup.”
“Or reading to kindergarteners,” Liam adds. “Remember when Jackson had to do that school outreach detail last year? Those kids roasted him for three weeks straight.”
“Five-year-olds are brutal,” Owen agrees.
I should be relieved. They’re right—this could be so much worse. Instead, I’m thinking about Monday. About walking into that shop with all its greenery and the woman standing behind the counter who looked at me like I was a problem she didn’t ask for.
Eight weeks. I could learn a lot about plants in eight weeks.
I head to my room about an hour later and sit on the edge of my bed, phone in hand, and open the text thread. I haven’t closed it in two years.
I scroll up, reading through messages that never got responses.
Made the playoffs, Dad. You were right about the wrist shot.
