When I first learned penmanship from someone, I wrote the sentence that tells my name in crayon on a piece of paper. It looked like I had mixed the first letters of my given and surnames. My mother pronounced the sentence aloud with the incorrect spelling and laughed at me. When I earned a degree in English she handed me a card that said Congratulations! and a check for $1000. I didn’t need money. I needed the laughter to go away. I kept the money. Who would turn down a thousand dollars for making one mittle listake?
Daily writing prompt
How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success?
Kayen Rice 