Before the poetry, a climate action PSA:
Black Friday is your next opportunity to stand with youth and
call for policy to recover our global climate.
I do plan to participate, but I have learned through my
Drawdown.org workshop that we are likely to accomplish more through action at the level of our local organizations, and that governments can't pay for the scale of change that is required. We have to press wealthy entities like corporations to make the change.
May I challenge you to research which is the most powerful corporate employer in your area? What are they doing to reduce emissions and reverse climate warming? Mine is Marriott, and they just decided NOT to provide a million little plastic bottles of shampoo. So I'm thinking of asking them to do more and fund food composting in my county schools!
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This post represents my 11th bloggiversary. Thanks to you, Dear Readers, for steadfastly sticking with me all this time, and for welcoming me into the Poetry Friday community.
And now, welcome to the next installment of
Overheard in PreK. Each of my kids has a laminated photo name card with a velcro dot on the back. We use it on the Attendance Board and then they take it with them to stick on posters for each play center as a way of showing who's working where. They often forget to retrieve them, meaning that PM kids will then find an AM card still stuck on a poster and vice versa.
My readingest AM kid is Kyng. He found PM Francisco's card in which Francisco is smiling broadly in a coral-pink striped polo shirt. "I found Flamingo's card in the Dollhouse!" said Kyng, handing it over.
It took me a few seconds to guess what had just happened.
How Reading is Like
I found a Flamingo at school, a Cassowary
and three Allisongators and a Bryonlyon,
plus a Nayanabanana and Nayelyjelly.
When I read I read with my whole head,
my eyes and my memory of every book I've read,
things I know and things I like.
When I see the color it helps me think.
Words are made of more than ink.
flashdraft ©Heidi Mordhorst
BONUS MUSIC: "Flamingo" by Kero Kero Bonito
This poem is brought to you by Kyng, Francisco, Cassidy, all three Allisons (yes, three), Bryon, Nayana and Nayely, and also by the complexity that is the reading process. The Poetry Friday round-up today is brought to you by Jama at
Jama's Alphabet Soup.
