Came across Gary Soto’s poem Time With You on Writers’ Almanac feed…. about impetuous youth
“I want to stuff sand through a fat hourglass and rip the pages from the calendar”
At this point in August I think most teachers would long for the opposite…a narrow opening for the sand to trickle through and those calendar pages lingering on for longer than 24 hours …
I feel that way about these days at my desk as I try to puzzle through the schedule and patch up all the summer doings….
This will be my last ( I’m fairly certain) opening of school and I’m not ready for that….
well, maybe I am, but not today.
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