A few things to keep you entertained:
Just before she left for Germany, my best friend from high school, Sara, did a photo shoot of our family. We had been wanting to get a family picture since the adorable addition to our family (Mason). For those of you interested, you can view the results here. And for those of you interested in the talented Sara Garner, her photography site can be viewed here.
The next bit of entertainment comes in the form of some poems. I always dreaded the point in a school year where I had to teach poetry. Never being a fan of poetry, I avoided teaching it at all cost. But today, I was putting together an anthology of poems to teach my students and remembered that there were some poems that I liked. In fact, quite a few! I'll share a few with you, but I won't tell you why I love them so -- I'll leave you to love them on your own.
i carry your heart with me
by e.e. cummings
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate, my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon as always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
-----
The Red Wheelbarrow
by William Carlos Williams
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
-----
We Real Cool
by Gwendolyn Brooks
We real cool. We
Left School. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
Another poem that I love, which is far too long to post here (slash, I'm too lazy to cut and paste) is a poem by Langston Hughes called "Let America Be America Again." LOVE it.
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