The Music of What Happens

by Bill Konigsberg

But here’s the secret: I like tender. Maybe more than I should.

The world will make you vulnerable. If you’re acting like you’re not, that’s what you’re doing. Acting.”

I’m staring at a drawing of a boy who is an actual being, like a … substantial person. Someone who makes choices and does stuff in the world. That’s all I can say about that, because it’s so weird to me. That I’ve never seen that in me before.