Why do I teach?
Why do I write?
Here is why.
It’s all about helping my students use their gifts to help the world.
It’s all about helping my students be something beautiful in the world.
It’s all about helping my students see and be wonder for the world.
It’s all about finding genius in the simple, beauty in the plain and wonder in the ordinary.
It’s all about becoming.
Becoming (a poem)
we become
the tear
on the hungry child's cheek,
the callous
on the old farmer's hand,
the wrinkle
around the worried mamí’s eye,
the blister
on the campesino's foot.
- Trevor Scott Barton, poems for a brown eyed girl, 2019
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