Today was the last day of school and the only thing sadder than saying goodbye to my students for the Summer is saying the same thing to my computer. Substitute teachers in my district need to borrow a computer each time they teach and return it at the end of the day, Classroom teachers are able to keep their computers year round as long as they are employed by the district. As a building sub, I am able to borrow a computer at the beginning of the year and not return it until the last day of the year. So today I had to say goodbye to my dear friend and I am back to borrowing computers from friends and libraries until the 24/25 school year gets under way.
Before I returned the computer to the media center, I cleaned out any files I may have had put on there during the course of the year. I came across a poem, I had written but forgotten all about. I don't remember what my inspiration was. I think it may have stemmed (no pun intended) from one of the science classes I was subbing in. Or it may have been am ELA assignment or maybe just a prompt form my poetry group. In any case it was in a Microsoft document in a borrowed computer and is now a submission to Poetry Friday which is being hosted this week by Michelle Kogan.
Growth Mindset
or
Standing on Our Failures
In cartoons, when an unsolvable problem is about to need a new adjective, a light bulb goes on over the thinker’s head.When Thomas Alva Edison
Or T. Alva Ed
Was inventing the light bulb
What went on over his head?
Idea after idea after idea
More than 10,00 all told
Which he did not view as failures
But as steps to the goal.
With each setback I think
I would have felt like a jerk
But Tom discovered
ways that his bulb wouldn’t work
Inspiration is a light
Perspiration is when we fight
To perfect our ideas
Until we GET THEM RIGHT.
Now when I have a bright idea.
And the light bulb shines
I stand on other's failures
And a whole lot of mine.
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