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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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Monday, December 06, 2004
Field Trip
Today Vicki Drobnis and I took 45 students to the Opry House to see plays performed by the repertory company The Chamber Theatre. Vicki teaches English at Creek Wood, too, and organized the trip. They performed five plays based on short stories and were entertaining and well-organized for school trips. The plays were in the Encore group: "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Monkey's Paw," "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," "The Necklace," and "The Celbrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (which in our lit book is "Notorious" instead of "Celebrated." We had a good time, and the kids were well-behaved. It was fun to be with them in a different setting like that.
6:19:00 PM
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