I'm slicing with the Two Writing Teachers community today. It's always good to read what everyone shares. Thank you Stacey, Tara, Anna, Betsy, Dana, Kathleen, Beth, and Deb
Whatever faith you follow, there are hundreds of quotes that fit this time of year. Charles Dickens' words most touch me in the winter, here at Christmas time, but his words are universal in their meaning. Yesterday was the anniversary of the Sandy Hook tragedy. I continue to be alarmed that we are doing lockdowns with young children, and wonder what that does to them? Does it make them feel safe? Or does it make them more scared? I hope that we can all work together in the coming months to make change so that these tragedies stop.
If you don't know it, Patricia McLachlan and Steven Kellogg created a beautiful picture book in memorial to those who died that day. It is titled Snowflakes Fall. Kellogg lived in Sandy Hook and raised his children there.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
If this is your final week before winter break, I hope it's started well, and fills up with good things all week long, until you are on vacation!
The Wonderful Slices of Life can be Found Linked at the Two Writing Teachers Blog
It was not easy posting today. Yesterday I wrote about books, not so hard. It was straightforward with a clear purpose. Today the slices are more open-ended. When I try to write about any topic, it didn't seem so important. I found that I couldn't find a way to make the topic interesting. And so I didn't write, just began to read my blogger friends' posts. They wrote such wonderful thoughts, they told things I didn't know yet, and they showed me that I could write and it would be okay, no matter what. I thank them!
I remembered this: In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. Anne Frank I have kept it for many years as part of my own philosophy and will continue.
