This morning I got up and I said I am done with the ugly, muddy, shady side of my porch where nothing grows. It was filled with weeds and dead things. It was bad energy and it aggravated me so much, so I decided to fix it. Honestly, I want to fix the whole yard, but that’s too overwhelming and expensive and would take forever so I committed to just complete this one section. We worked all day long and it’s done! I have a new zen garden!!! I had found the Buddha statue in some trash ages ago and the blue rocks and tiles I had lying around the yard already. The jewels in the rock river were leftover from my art projects. So now everything has a clean, pretty new home and I have a beautiful view when I have tea in the porch.
Morning bunny with picket fence and roses
“You are made of almost nothing”
My heart leaps up when I behold/ a rainbow in the sky - Wordsworth
“I’ll tel you how the sun rose/ a ribbon at a time” - Emily Dickinson (Still planning that poetry unit for my Lit class 🔥)
The Blue Angels are practicing right now at my beach.
Yesterday planning my summer poetry unit it occurred to me that I cannot teach this without including Sarah Manguso’s work and then I found this again and carried it with me the rest of the day and now I cannot get it out of my head. I can’t stop thinking about this poem. She is so so good.
My childhood dream finally came true. I got to spend a day at the yacht club feeling fancy and drinking lemonade, and there was a giant rainbow unicorn floatie. 🌈 🦄
This is why I teach. My purpose, my greatest joy, is taking these students who are unsure and lacking confidence, and showing them that they can do it, that they have a voice too, and that they matter. I can’t imagine having any other job. 🍎
Copy and paste to read it or links in profile because my poems are too long to put in a comment. http://www.victoriafedden.com/widelawns/2019/4/14/sunday-a-poem-for-the-start-of-every-single-week
Detail of a poppy. This isn’t a painting! It’s a real flower. I was excited because I’ve never seen a red poppy in real life.
Dream house with a big vegetable garden, lacy curtains, and an enormous front porch with rocking chairs. 🌴
Some people go to bed when they feel sick. I go hang out in orchid greenhouses, I guess. It’s orchid season in south Florida! I can’t help myself!
W.S. Merwin, Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the US died today. Please listen to me and go read as much of his poetry as you possibly can. You need to see what this man could do with a few words and images.
I don’t usually post pictures of myself, but here is a picture of me at my very happiest. I’m my best when I’m in the ocean. I got to go sea kayaking today! 🏖
The colors of the beach are so vivid today.
One of my favorite traditions with Millie is picking tomatoes and strawberries each winter. 🍅🍓

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