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If we want kids to read…we have to let them read what interests them, not what our culture thinks they should read

Posted on January 12, 2019 by
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Books can set us free, wake us up, put us to sleep, make us laugh, or teach us what we need to know. Books are magic and they are all around us.

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Book tree…

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What we are…a poem

Posted on December 3, 2018 by

there’s nothing in our past that isn’t part of us now everything that has happened to us or around us will be with us forever because we are the result of each of those things we are  the record of … Continue reading →

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Too many schools teach too many kids to HATE reading because they force them to read the wrong books…

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Okay, so…

Posted on November 29, 2018 by

Another thing about poetry books.  Some, that are written by men, reduce women to body parts.  They talk about us as if we are things.  Things to be used, laughed at and treated like garbage.  They call us names and … Continue reading →

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Okay, so…

Posted on November 29, 2018 by

I was looking at poetry books on Amazon.  Have you ever noticed how many of them are on healing trauma,  brutality, insecurities, hateful encounters, pretty much life in general?  It seems to me that when there are that many books, … Continue reading →

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