I started this morning reviewing some blog articles I wrote in 2012, 2013, and 2014 for a website I made for my elementary after-school garden club students and parents. Reading my own words brought back many fond memories of the years I led this group I founded in 2004. It ended in 2017, but then I went on to teach a similar group for two more years in a different school district. It was all volunteer work, but work I loved and felt was needed.
The reason I was reviewing my articles was that I’ve been asked to write a book chapter proposal. I needed to retrieve some of the feelings that I had when I taught the group to infuse them into the proposal I was working on. What better way to return to my feelings than to read my own words?
And then, I looked at the poetry word prompt for today: astonish.
As often happens, words come to me when I am busy doing something else. It’s like my brain is working in the background while I’m occupied with menial tasks, such as cleaning or grocery shopping, as I was today.
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The Apples in My Orchard 
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