Tag: gifts
member name: elizabeth e.
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May 18, 2008 07:50 AM EDT --
Recipe for Love
Capture the colors of a rainbow
Mix in soil, sweat, and smiles
Stir in a cup of sunlight . . .
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December 20, 2007 06:34 PM EST --
There's a new face on Gather and she's just a peach. Her name is Lena Lemieux...but you can find her at owlet.gather. She is one of my very supportive Moms and I would like to introduce you to . . .
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June 20, 2008 06:53 AM EDT --
Barbary Chaapel wrote an article This is How Love Looks yesterday and I couldn't help but agree with her thoughts. Love does start first with just a bud and as time goes by blossoms into . . .
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August 20, 2008 07:28 AM EDT --
Out in the garden early one morn
I captured wee faeries in gossamer
blue. Dancing a minuet in
opalescent dresses that shimmered
and sparkled fr om the rays of the sun.
. . .
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December 09, 2008 09:50 PM EST --
Two years ago come this Spring, on Arbor Day my kindergarteners planted a fir tree out in the forest behind my school. At the time, I told the children about my friend Tonia, a girl who hugged trees. . . .
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December 20, 2008 08:01 PM EST --
"The north wind doth blow,
And we shall have snow,
And what will the dormouse do then,
Poor thing?
Roll'd up like a ball,
In his nest snug and small,
He'll sleep till warm weather . . .
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June 13, 2008 06:42 AM EDT --
Last Monday Papa had agreed to babysit Sage while Sage's Mom Lena went to the Zoo as a chaperone with Julia's kindergarten class. Because I have a Baker's cyst on my left leg I was fortunate . . .
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June 22, 2008 06:37 PM EDT --
In the late afternoon on the summer solstice, Sophie decided to take a walk around her world. Sophie lives with Ophelia, her mother, her Uncle Othello and Tuck, their loyal canine companion . . .
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August 02, 2008 10:47 AM EDT --
" When you set out for Ithaka
Ask that your way be long,
Full of adventure, full of instruction."
~C.P. Cavafy~
"Tricia, how are you ever going to see a bobcat in the wild if . . .
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August 17, 2008 10:24 AM EDT --
"I am just so excited, I can hardly contain myself. Mistress Elizabeth said last night that she has arranged for me to have a playdate. Imagine, little old me having a playdate. . . .
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August 21, 2008 09:08 AM EDT --
The birds were singing,
The bees were humming,
And down in the garden,
I heard the blue faeries
murmuring.
"Wee faeries do not swim
in gossamer blue" said
Julia . . .
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August 30, 2008 06:55 PM EDT --
This past week I started back to school along with thousands of children through out the nation. For me, this means I'm starting my fortieth year of teaching. Yes, I started long ago in . . .
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December 14, 2007 08:12 AM EST --
Last week one of my mothers in my morning kindergarten class called and asked if she could come in and do a craft with my children. I love sharing my classroom with parents. I think having a strong . . .
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February 05, 2008 08:08 AM EST --
"Darn it all. I'm the real brains around here. Did not the Mistress name me Sophia from the Greek word meaning wise? What's that you say, Tuck. The Mistress didn't . . .
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August 04, 2008 07:39 AM EDT --
I love blueberries
rich, dark blue juicy
blueberries.
I love them in pies
and blueberry cake
I love blueberries crisp
and blueberry cheesecake . . .
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January 01, 2008 10:21 AM EST --
A ramble through
unchartered woods
to a path overgrown
with brambles and thorns
and crusty moss covered rocks,
To a cabin in . . .
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February 22, 2008 10:20 AM EST --
Through his lens
He sees his world.
Through his eyes
We see the wonder
of the natural place
We call home.
Through his eyes
We see an old
country road
and the shadows
the . . .
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March 01, 2008 12:09 AM EST --
Last week, my good Gatherite friend Jean, at my asking, gave me a Tarot card reading. In the article she mentioned that I was going through some major changes in my life and that "my cup runneth . . .
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June 21, 2008 08:56 AM EDT --
We had the day all planned. Friday we would meet at the Indian (rest area in Plymouth) on Route #3 and go to White Horse Beach in Plymouth. Last week, Alyssa (Fran's granddaughter) had . . .
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June 24, 2008 05:58 AM EDT --
Gently she bent down
and extended her hand
to the ground and with
her gnarled fingers that
had seen many years
picked a rose petal that
had fallen and I could
not help but think that
she . . .
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