I work at a Montessori school which accepts children from infant through 8th grade.
I work with the toddlers and it's my favourite even though they can be challenging.
Each child is their own unique and incredibly beautiful being and I have the chance
to be at ground zero in their lives.
New parents, new children, new families.
I love it!
Sometimes the children bring me little flowers from around the school campus.
Black-eyed Susans, small branches with Beech seeds and Maple seeds on them, and Astors.
Very small gifts from very small hands which make me very thankful.
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Sic Vita
I am a parcel of vain strivings tied
by a chance bond together
dangling this way and that, their links
were made so loose and wide
methinks for milder weather.
A bunch of violets without their roots,
and sorrow intermixed,
encircled by a wisp of straw once coiled about their shoots,
the law by which I'm fixed.
A nosegay which time clutched from out those fair Elysian fields,
with weeds and broken stems, in haste,
doth make the rabble rout that waste the day he yields.
And here I bloom for a short hour unseen,
drinking my juices up,
with no root in the land to keep my branches green,
but stand in a bare cup.
Some tender buds were left upon my stem in mimicry of life,
but ah! the children will not know, till time has withered them,
the woe with which they're rife.
But now I see I was not plucked for nought
and after in life's vase of glass set while I might survive,
but by a kind hand, brought alive to a strange place.
That stock thus thinned will soon redeem its hours,
and by another year, such as God knows with freer air,
more fruits and fairer flowers,
will bloom while I droop here.
-Henry David Thoreau
I like that poem! Thanks for sharing :).
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