Reid@YWP

He is waiting for his ride at the entrance of his office building. The automatic light near the lobby is broken, so the only light is far down the hallway. He leans against the brick wall.

TikTok’s “nonchalance” trend is taking over social media, and teens have adopted the word in the past year as the viral idea has been spreading in popularity since 2024. Nonchalant people project a low-effort presence, and they don’t talk much.

the first snow

always elicits a sense

of wonder

in me

a feeling that

everything is new again

and that the world

is being reborn

entering a new phase

in its annual cycle

of growth

You know I think it just struck me I was sitting here reading summer poems tasting raspberry popsicles on my tongue but looking out the window,

 it's snowing out 

and the trees and stone wall and everything,

Some days during the last block of school I feel like falling asleep.

Not because I don't care about school. In fact I want to learn,

To be American is to

Listen to the rain fall and to

Let it wash over our faces, just

As all who came before us did

(not just the founding fathers did but

the children, the mothers, those