I Love the Look of Words
Popcorn leaps, popping from the floor
of a hot black skillet
and into my mouth.
Black words leap,
snapping from the white
page. Pushing into my eyes. Sliding
into my brain which gobbles them
the way my tongue and teeth
chomp the buttered popcorn.
When I have stopped reading,
ideas from the words stay stuck
in my mind, like the sweet smell of butter perfuming
my fingers long after the popcorn
is finished.
I love the book and the look of words
the weight of ideas that popped into my mind
I love the tracks
of new thinking in my mind.
-Maya Angelou
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
- Albert Einstein
These two quotes sum up what I hope the children experience in my
classroom each day - the awe and wonder of the"mysterious" and the
formation of "tracks" of new thinking and learning.
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