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The Waking
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I cannot go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree, but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
--Theodore Roethke
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Joy's Updates - Straight from the Horse's Mouth.
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Sunday, August 24, 2003
Lapse
Wow, has it been almost a week since I posted on here? This week has been one of those where all of us teachers kept feeling as if it were lasting forever. "Is it just Tuesday?" "Thursday? It feels like half-way into next week." I was up late every night trying to keep up with school work, gave three tests, graded them, made speeches to my 9th graders about their work ethic, and then slept ten hours Friday night. I'm trying to get a head start on this week and not feel like it's a race.
I got a carpet burn on the top of my foot from yoga. Pretty funny, isn't it? Sure, laugh! Try it! Those poses show me how inflexible my body has become. Thirty-five years and thirty-five pounds ago, yoga wasn't this hard to do. Go figure!
The answers to the Trivia Quiz are in the first commet box below the quiz. Thanks for playing. Another one will be here tomorrow night.
12:03:00 PM
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