Friday, January 25, 2008

Tapping Into Passion = Happiness


Michael Turner began "spitting" out spoken word poetry as a senior in high school. He told me he wanted to research poetry and I asked him, "Do you write?" He answered that he did, and the rest is history. Michael recited the attached poem. As a teacher, he taught me that students are more amazing than they even realize and that stopping to ask him a simple question was all it took to tap into an artform. There are so many untapped resources in the world and when we take the time to inquire about them, a simple question might deliver discoveries that we're only beginning to understand

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