FIVE GARDENS AND GROWING

We are in the home stretch of the 2015 reading program - Friday we'll collect the week 4  numbers and see if we have made our goal.  It will be a stretch, but we are still accepting bonus submissions of recipes and poems, and they can make a difference - Send them to us!  They will also make a wonderful eBook of poetical deliciousness.  This morning I got this splendid poem in my email - reason enough to keep running reading programs for years to come!  All this and feeding people, too, in mind, body and soul.

The small piece of life

In the warmth of dark silt

Waiting for beams of sunlight

To wake the resting

A popping sprout

The plant of hope

That says "I am here"

The soothing rain

Bursting with energy and nutrients

The falling water wet on the rich soil

A strong stem that says "I will stay"

Reaches its roots out

Trusts the earth

And grows taller

   - Rebecca M. 5A