It's Poetry Friday, and Tricia Stohr-Hunt is hosting on her website here! She's sharing this month's poetry sisters' challenge, offering a taste of summer - delicious!
Thanks for hosting, Tricia!
I wakened to a sound yesterday morning that I haven't heard in a long time! Nearly every day, the sun is covered, but none of those clouds have brought rain. This time differed, a lot!
I do realize that many of you have had an abundance of rain and wish it would stop. Would that we all had some moderation, right?
Margaret Simon at Reflections on The Teche hosts today's Poetry Friday! She's showing us about theft, and memories, too! Be sure to visit!
Remember last week when I shared my poem swap for Iphigene Daradar? That next day I did hear from her, that she's in Australia, and will get my swap package when she returns. Then, the very next day, I received a package from.......... Iphigene! You know as well as writing poetry, she is also a marvelous artist, so not only did I receive a special poem, there was a small painting inside, too and a collaged envelope for the poem! Iphigene must know Colorado (maybe Denver, too) well, because she wrote about rain, a childhood memory, but one I hold dear whenever we actually do receive enough to "play"!
Visit Jen at Teach MentorTexts and Kellee and Ricki at UnleashingReaders to see what they've been reading, along with everyone else who link up. tweet #IMWAYR
Happy Spring! My poem, Ode To Wind is visiting Today's Little Ditty today. I know many of you have heard me say how much we need rain or snow. Recently, I even posted a picture of a couple of puddles because I was so excited. While it was wonderful, that little rainstorm lasted about 20 minutes! Despite recent snow, and significant snow in the mountains, Colorado's plains and foothills have emerged in drought-like conditions. There are fires in various places happening right now. Somehow I seemed to have read three stories about rain this past week. And if you consider also the sci-fi talk about potable water on Mars, I can also count The Last Day on Mars as a futuristic water challenge. Here are the current facts from Water.org, including one in ten people on earth, 685 million people who lack access to safe water.
Thanks to Heidi Mordhorst at My Juicy Little Universe for hosting this week's Poetry Friday! She's welcoming us, plus sixteen second graders soon! Happy start to the year, Heidi! And thanks for hosting at this busy time! I am sorry for the flooding in Louisiana and the terrible loss for many. It is still amazing to me that some parts of the country have too, too much rain, and here in Colorado we are so dry. It is an arid environment and we celebrate any kind of moisture that comes our way. So often the storms come down from the mountains or from the north and stop only briefly, then move on to the eastern and southern plains. There they intensify. A friend who lives about thirty miles south, in the country, receives much more moisture than we do in the city. These past couple of days we have had rain, and this time I captured a beginning in a short video, and wrote about it. We celebrate while others bemoan the clouds and rains that doesn't stop. Point of view in our lives is always something to consider, isn't it?
I'm slicing with theTwo Writing Teachers community for Day Thirty of Thirty-Oneof the Slice of Life Challenge in March. WE ARE ALMOST DONE! Congratulations to everyone who have made it this far! Thank you Stacey, Tara, Anna, Betsy, Dana, Kathleen, Beth, and Deb.
