The woods seemed huge back then, but they were really just an undeveloped acre of land. The most remarkable piece of flotsam I ever found was buried in a brook that ran through the woods at one end of my neighborhood. While flotsam technically refers specifically to maritime debris, I like the more colloquial definition referring to odds and ends that can turn up anywhere-on the beach, on land, even in your mind.įlotsam on a cosmic scale-images, ideas, and memories floating through time and space-appeals to me now.Īs a kid, though, I only knew the down-to-earth kind. They were funny-sounding and interesting in meaning. From that point on, the words flotsam and jetsam were part of my vocabulary. When I was in the fourth grade, my teacher read this little poem by Ogden Nash to the class. David Wiesner’s Caldecott Medal Acceptance Speech for Flotsam
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