Showing posts with label Friendship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Friendship. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

HELLO MY NAME IS - Day 30

Happy Last Day of National Poetry Month!

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Hello, Poetry Friends! This month I shared poems written in the voice of Little Red Riding Hood, and I used this idea sheet to help me write all month long.


Here are this month's poems. What fun I had writing them!

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD'S POEMS SO FAR

And now for today!

Students - Gosh, I must admit that I am going to miss this project. I think I will likely keep working on it, living for a bit longer in the world of Lou and her family and friends.

Writing a poem mostly each day (sometimes more, sometimes less due to lots of school visit travel) within the course of a month is a true challenge for me, and I now plan to print these 30 bits and play around with them, see what/if they wish to become next.

All of my gratitude to you for joining me on this final day of HELLO MY NAME IS... Taking on a project like this is something like letting people see you dance to music in your living room, a little brave and a little embarrassing. But I did it...and you were kind. Thank you!

Happy final day of National Poetry Month 2025!

xo,

Amy

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Friday, October 25, 2024

What Have I Been Given?

Posing with a Pin Oak
Photo by Amy LV

On the Ground
Photo by Amy LV

Students - Two evenings ago, at my knitting group, Gretchen brought out a few jackets and other things that she wished to give away. Katie brought a couple of tablecloths to rehome, Tanya brought pumpkin bread, and Emily brought a baby sweater pattern and pumpkin pie. Once again it felt so good and warm to share with friends. Such sharing is a regular occurance with this group of friends, offering each other items we no longer use but which still have lots of life left, passing baked goods and tea across the table. I was grateful to come home wearing this cozy autumn jacket, and yes...it is the jacket in the photo above, a great match to the pin oak trees in our yard.

Today's poem came to me as I wrote in my notebook yesterday, reflecting on this simple and happy moment with friends. I hadn't planned to write a poem about it, but I was notebooking along, knew I had a poem to write for today, and this one showed up. I am again reminded of the importance of regular writing, of writing not because I am inspired but because it is delightful to see which words and stories and wonderings appear on the page when I set myself to work.

Remember this - you don't a great idea to get started. Just get started.

And if you want to try what I tried, remember something you have been given and write about that. Perhaps it was a gift, or a hand-me-down, a piece of advice, or a bit of food. When we pay attention to what we have been given, we feed our sense of gratitude. You may even wish to make a list of things you have been given in your own notebook. Actually...I think I will do that too.

Ahead of me will be a bit of mending on this cuff. I have a couple of old flowery suitcases full of fabric and will choose a perfect patch. Perhaps I will write about it. Perhaps not!

A Small Hole on One Cuff
Photo by Amy LV

In unhelpful cat assistant news, I bring you Winnie (otherwise known as Winnie Woo or Winnie Walenda). She was happy to join me yesterday in my outdoor writing session...

Winnie the Writer
Photo by Amy LV

Carol is hosting this week's Poetry Friday roundup over at Beyond Literacy Link with the theme of "Autumn's Abundant Gifts." Each Friday, all are invited to share poems, poem books, poetry ideas, and friendship in this open and welcoming poetry community.

May you be given delights and may you give delights to others this week.

xo,

Amy

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Friday, August 10, 2012

Hands - What is Your Favorite Feeling?

 

Holding Hands
by Amy LV


Students - Last week I was working at Sprucelands horse camp, and that is why I was not here for Poetry Friday.  One bright afternoon, as campers rested after lunch, the "hill moms" (camp adults) decided to walk out into the mud with a flag we'd made out of an old t-shirt and some duct tape.  Well, one thing led to another after we planted the flag, and suddenly it was an all-out mud war.  All of us were covered in mud and laughing both evil and joyful laughs.  We washed off by lying in a stream, letting the cold wash over us as we sang songs together.

After rinsing, we sat in a circle holding hands, just talking about friendship.  Then, still hand-in-hand, we put our feet into our circle and laid back into the warm day, forming a circle of friendship that looked just like a sunshine.  

Later this week, as I sat with my neglected notebook, that day's feeling of holding hands with friends came right back to me.

What is one of your favorite feelings? Can you think of a time when you felt very connected to other people?  Jot a little list in your notebook of such feelings and times, because these are food for your writing life.  I am starting such a page in my notebook today.

Muddy Hill Moms - How Grateful I Am to You!
Photo by Joy Warren

Speaking of notebooks, this week I am so happy to welcome Alan Wright over at my other blog, Sharing Our Notebooks.  Alan shares his interesting insights into notebook-keeping along with a great suggestion for all of us to try.  Please stop by and leave a comment to be entered in the giveaway of a surprise notebook.  (I have not yet chosen it!)  Teachers - I am pleased to say that Sharing Our Notebooks is filling up with excellent resources for your teaching with notebooks...plus it holds ideas for grown-up notebook-keepers too!

Violet Nesdoly is hosting Poetry Friday for her first time today over at Violet Nesdoly/Poems.  If it's your first time visiting Poetry Friday, please know that all you have to do is head to her blog and enjoy the treats.  And of course you are always more than welcome to link to your own blog.

Here's wishing you a week full of friendship and silliness!

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