Wednesday, September 21, 2016

September

by Beth Alexander Walsh


September is industrious.
It is harvests and stacks of firewood.
It is work and school.
It is new notebooks and backpacks and boxes of crayons.
It is dodgeball and hopscotch and jump rope.
It is Girl Scouts and Cub Scouts and soccer.
It is reading and writing and arithmetic.
It is afternoons in the library and Scholastic book orders.
It is marching band and football games.
It is shoes and socks and sweaters.
It is deciding how long you can last without turning the heat on.
It is apples and pumpkins and stew simmering on the stove.
It is structure and purpose.
It is learning and reinvention.
Industrious is September.

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