Tasting Notes from the Summer Buddies Tea Party

I’ll have the hose water special, please.

Photo by Kande Bonfim on Unsplash

On Thursday, my son came home from his last day of kindergarten with a backpack full of art projects, worksheets, and flashcards of word lists and math facts to practice over the summer. He shook out his bag upside down and scraps from the year cascaded to the table: a used bandaid, a paperclip chain, a pulverized Natures Valley granola bar…