🎭 Culture Oct 7, 2026 · Clellan Coe

Red Bird, Bluebird, Old Bird, You Bird

The American Scholar
American Scholar magazine
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One afternoon in early September, at the outdoor city pool in La Pola with my brother, I asked whether he would like to be 10 again. We were watching some kids about that age play in the pool. “No,” he said, “been there, done that.” And I agree. No need to go through that phase all over. Or any. Not the teen years or the college years, not getting settled in my 30s and having children, not the stretch of time between then and now, slowing down, contemplating my surroundings in a newly appreciati

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