"Baby Turtle"

"I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly. Ah! I didn't know, I held opportunity." -Hazel Lee

According to the weather forecast,

this is the last sunny day

for the next 3 weeks.

And so,

I ate my lunch outside

at the Pond.

Little did I know,

when I sat on a rock to eat my sushi,

I'd find a miniature friend

in the grass by my feet.

Sweet little guy

was bathing in the sun

until I stomped along and woke him up.

Down the path,

a little ways more,

I found some proof

of our Lord's

love for colors.

♥

I haven't a clue what they are,

but I sure do think they're pretty.

Any flower experts out there?

"Remember Today"

"The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here."

-Robert G. Ingersoll

We had a successful class yesterday,

the 7th graders and I.

We learned how different

the minds of Americans

and Japanese

are.

We played a game

where they guessed

what picture I was holding in my hand.

I gave them clues, according to color and shape,

and that's when the class erupted.

"Tigers are yellow!"

No, they're orange.

"Onions are brown!"

No, they're pink.

"The sun is red!"

No, it's yellow.

"Stoplights are blue!"

No, they're green.

Teaching can be mundane,

because it's selfless.

But, if I let the days of the week pass me by

without a second glance,

I throw away moments of life.

To quoth Keith Urban's music:

"These are the days we will remember,

and these are the times that won't come again."

I learn so much

by living here.

There's nowhere else on Earth

I need to be

right now.

{Music via The Lovely Bones. Gorgeous film. You must watch it.}

{Quotes from "Hawksong" & "Eclipse"}

"If You Give a Mouse a Cookie..."

"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."-Margaret Atwood

One day at school,I had 7 hours of nothing to do.Well, besides my homework, but pffft.So, I told the staff I was taking a walkand headed down the street to the post office.

But then I saw the Family Martacross the streetand had to get an ice cream.

Which led to spotting a very green,very grassy hillnearby.

And the next thing I knew,I was climbing the hilland crunching along the gravely pathof the Greater Pond of Kakogawa{Kako Ooike 加古大池}.

I didn't take out my camerauntil the stroll was almost over,because I was practically floating in the cloudsthe entire way.But I'll go backand show you all of it sometime.

{"Clair de Lune" via Claude Debussy}