TheBanyanTree: Understanding Suicide

[Barb Edlen]

On 5/7/2014 6:59 PM, Monique Colver wrote:
>   Please talk about
> you. Tell me what you’re doing, how the kids are, what the family’s up to,
> how work’s going. Tell me all your stories, fill up that empty space with
> your words, help me regain my connection to a world that I feel I’ve lost
> touch with. Help me back from the abyss.
>

Today, I watched with amused fascination as my students played in the 
outside water table for the first time this year. We pretended we were 
catching fish.....rainbow trout.....and a bass (a big 'un!) - we named 
him Sam.

We watered a tree and watched ants walk up the trunk of the tree and 
talked about their mommies and daddies. We dug for worms, but figured 
they must still be sleeping, because we couldn't find any. (I'll bring 
some to school next week and we'll begin a worm farm.) But we did find a 
big fat roly-poly grub! And the boys all had to hold it and we looked at 
its head and teeny-tiny feet before I placed it safely out of reach of 
running Spider-man sneakers and cowboy boots.

Then we went back to the water table where I was served some yummy tree 
bark tea, and a mud milkshake (in case the tea was too hot and I had 
burned my tongue).

The bestest moment though was when Colin brought me a cup of water with 
teeny-tiny, itsy-bitsy bits of mulch and dirt floating around and 
invited me to "swirl it around so you watch my glitter-fish swim".

Glitter-fish.

His amazing little mind saw beautiful sparkly glitter-fish in the muddy 
water.

You do that, too, Neekia. You help us see the glitter-fish.

Love you bunches, Neekia.