Seasons Change

I created this blog about a month and a half ago and am just now getting around to creating my first post. I feel, though, that this is coming at an appropriate time of year, of life. The season has officially changed and cold can no longer be avoided. The days are crisp and action is invigorated. I hope to use this blog in many ways; to share experiences from life and my first year of teaching, to share my writing, which is rare, and to create a vehicle with which to invoke all that permeates my thoughts during the day, to put down in text. Here is what I have for the world at this time:

In the land of wheat
Full of field and sun
Where the summer's hot
and the winter is strange
where the weather blends from
season to season
a change is blowing in and it can not...
SHOULD not
be ignored
tornadoes come and we jump into the bathtub
a storm and the lights go off,
and we scream from fear of darkness
We have been promised protection...
We have been saved from a miry pit...
Because we have so freely received, we have much to give,
And as change comes, we must offer more than ever...
Make ourselves available to listen...to work...
to dance with those who need to dance...
To bring understanding and community to the table,
that all may be filled with a warm portion
of something greater than the earthly powers that be...