Hospice Care for a Bee
My students giving hospice care to a bee. For years I have compartmentalized my life into two sections, not including my motherhood. One is as an educator of young children and the other is that of a watercolor painter and poet. For more than a decade I wrote the blog The Moveable Alphabet: The Diary of a Montessori Theorist. I wrote much about the art done by students. Art was and remains a constant within the collective community we call a classroom. I am deeply passionate about sustaining an academic environment that simultaneously invites art and creative writing as a means of gaining and expressing knowledge and identity. Over the past few years, I have been writing this blog, A Sea of Watercolors: The Diary of a Watercolor Painter and Poet. I have mostly kept my life as an educator outside of its stories. I have occasionally sprinkled a small confetti of details here and there yet not the great beauty I find being in the presence of young children I call my stude...