Best Wishes Mary Lee!

Good Poetry Friday,

Christie at Wondering and Wandering is leading our round-up today. Be sure to stop by and say hello. Thank you, Christie!

Have you heard the news that our poet teacher friend, Mary Lee Hahn, is retiring from the classroom?  I am thrilled for her. 

What love she has poured into a career of teaching inside and outside her classroom. All those lessons and writing prompts and wonders and wows! All those gingerbread cookies with icing sessions! I count myself lucky to be a reader of her work. I have learned much from this wise online friend I met through poetry.

A Note to My Students

By Mary Lee Hahn 

Stop me if I start to preach. 

That’s not my job; 

I’m here to teach. 

And if I talk and talk and talk, 

remind me — gently – I should stop 

and listen more 

and let you speak, 

discover, wonder, 

think,

think,

think. 

2015

Hey Ms. Hahn

 

No need to stop, 

Ms. Hahn, teach on! 

I’m here to learn;

that’s my job. 

I write, and write and write,

because I love—new ideas --

and ways to share. 

and question thoughtfully

and converse with other poets

my discoveries, 

my wonders. 

Thank you, 

thank you, 

thank you. 

Your Poetry Friday Friend,

Linda M.

Can you believe it? Hamish caught up with two calves from Idaho named Caterpillar and Diesel. The boys are in school learning how to be big, strong oxen. See them on Hamish's padlet.

Law, Bridgett/Kit. “Training Baby Oxen.” Law Family Homestead, Law Family Homestead, 16 June