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simple gifts.

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 carried from home to school

clutched in chubby hand

  tiny simple gift

brings precious beauty 

to a teacher’s heart.

 

“sometimes, said pooh, the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”

-a.a. milne – winnie the pooh

deeply.

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“that we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone,

that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.”

-john berger

 

 

anna scripps whitcomb conservatory, belle isle, detroit, michigan

enchanted.

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today we found a beautiful flower that survived

under the snow and ice and rain and arctic temperatures of january.

 were very surprised.

it must be enchanted.

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“the only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature

are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment.

they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.”
-g. k. chesterton