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It’s National Poetry month. If this is the only section of Half the Clothes you visit, you probably think I dropped off the face of the earth. Au contraire.

If you want to commit to memory one promise of God whose depth you will never exhaust, focus on these five simple words: “I will be your God.”

This blessing is for the moment after clarity has come...

There is no remedy for love but to love more. / – Henry David Thoreau / Let us agree / for now

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Blessing the Dust (Jan Richardson). "All those days you felt like dust, like dirt, as if all you had to do was turn your face toward the wind and be scattered to the four corners or swept away by the smallest breath as insubstantial— Did you not know what the Holy One can do with dust? This is the day we freely say we are scorched. This is the hour we are marked by what has made it through the burning..."

Blessing For The Longest Night, by Jan Richardson

OK. If you follow K Teacher Talk on Facebook, you know that I have been wayyy too geeked out about seeing Jan Richardson today. I have been using Jan’s format in my classroom for the last 3 or 4 years now and I love it! Before Reading her book The Next Step in Guided Reading, my guided reading instruction felt scattered. It has since clicked for me and I will never go back! I love the Jan Plan! You can read my original posts about it here and here. So, on

My we open and open more and open still to the blessed light that comes.