And Without Further Ado: Your Days in a Sentence!

Okay, a little ado will do.

I have thoroughly enjoyed hosting the Day in a Sentence feature this week. Thanks, Kevin, for allowing me the opportunity to spend a little time communicating with all of these excellent teachers!

Thanks for the kind words, everybody! I’m so glad to have met you all. =)

These are posted in the order they were received, and each name links to the contributor’s site.

Oh, and if you’re just getting here, please feel free to post your sentence (or whatever you like) in the comments of this post!

Mathew, returning from a fun-filled week, starts us off:

“I enjoyed a week of adventure, sunshine, and beaches and yet am glad to be back home.”

dkzody shares a not-too-pleasant realization that I’m sure most of us have had before:

“I have decided I work too hard for the results I get.”

Janice reminded me of the gardening I’d planned for the summer that never got crossed off:

“I was pleasantly reminded of just how invigoratingly tiring it is to toil in earth, and create a new garden from a barren plot.”

Elona has been gardening, too, though I suppose I prefer her alternate activity. :P

“It’s been a week of gardening in the sunshine and reading in doors while it rains. The best of both worlds.”

Stacey spent some time time-warping, sports style, in the Bronx:

“I had the chance to see the new Yankee Stadium today AND got to walk on the field of the present one.”

Gail P. reminds us in vivid language that there’s more to vacationing than fun time:

“Packing all the finery, rigging, and regalia when going on vacation is much more fun than unpacking all the soiled, broken, sandy, smelly, and used up paraphernalia that’s been hauled back into the house afterward.”

Amy gives us a visual before and after of her classroom. Look at all those little chairs! Are those tennis balls?!

“After about 4 hours, my classroom begins to look ready for students.”

Illya‘s contribution is a bit bittersweet. Enjoying time with missed family, she’s can’t help but see ahead to more missing:

“After not having seen my father and his wife for several years, they have come to visit me in Switzerland. We are visiting historically interesting places (including many castles!), eating well and playing games in the evening. However, when they leave, they will leave a large hole in my life as they are taking my darling son with them to go to school in the States for a year. I wish time to go by slowly for now.”

Kevin‘s on vacation all around, and he definitely deserves it! I’ve often wondered how in the world he can possibly do all that he does. =O

“The beach beckons and so we go.”

Anne‘s Australian winter has turned a-chill. But the national sport — Australian rules football — perseveres, as it has for 150 years this year, according to Anne!

“This week the cold and frostiness of winter was tolerated with warm days until Saturday when bleak weather and rains chilled the bone, causing our canteen at the footy, to sell out of all hot foods by half time.”

sara is celebrating her sixth-graders’ switching classes — and her ability to focus on writing — with a, in her words, “haiku-ish haiku”:

“paperclipped math sheets wait
patiently for their new homes
i won’t need your busywork.”

Bonnie says her “socks were knocked off” when she saw this place, and I can see why!

“First time for everything. I spent the week that was, in Maine, heading for Bar Harbor and spending nights along the way in lovely coastal towns. I was totally satisfied with the water we encountered at each stop that was, until BAR HARBOR!”

Gail D. traveled all over the country this summer, taking part in what sounds like truly inspirational work:

“I returned to work this week, refreshed and recharged from an amazing 6-week break that included the NECC Conference, Holocaust Memorial Library Summer Seminar, NCTE 21st Century Literacies Institute,and the Area 3 Writing Project summer Tech Institute…and realized how much I am looking forward to the new school year.”

Tracy is considering how to spend her remaining free days:

“Today I have resolved to spend the next 2 weeks, the last before school starts again, only doing things that I love: playing with my dog, painting a painting, planting and watering and cutting back in the garden, spending time with close friends, reading, chatting about nothing and everything online, and listening to fabulous music – I better get busy…on second thought…I’m just going to let things happen as they will and if they are meant to be they will be :)”

And finally, my own sentence. I almost wrote one when I posted the call for yours, but something held me back. Now I know. My 84-years-young aunt died this morning. She was such an inspiration in so many ways, and I hope you’ll forgive me the length. It just flowed out of me when I got home from seeing my family and, though it’ll probably change, I know she would’ve wanted me to share it this way:

“Idella

I’ll always remember your excitement over people,
All people: the penpals from all over the world
who sent you specials on your birthday and Christmas,
the mailman, your neighbors from two houses ago,
your fellow yard-sale-aholics, the pharmacist.

You never met a stranger.
Your heart was poetry and phileo.

I’ll always remember the twinkle in your eyes
as you made your silly faces and sing-songed
in your silly voices: I remember when you wore
that rainbow wig, all clowned-out
to make someone — everyone — smile.

You had to have been at least fifty the last time
I saw you put your legs behind your head.

I’ll always remember your need to feed me —
and everyone. An oatmeal cream pie here,
a can of potato sticks there, I always thought
it was just food, just my stomach you filled.
Now I understand it was so much more.

I looked your name up; it means “bountiful.”
And you were overflowing, over us all.

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