A Spark Can Become A Flame, A

When I Was Growing Up I Loved Reading Historical Fiction, But Too Often It Was About Males; Or, If It Was About Females, They Were Girls Who Were Going To Grow Up To Be Famous Like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, Or Harriet Tubman. No One Ever Wrote About Plain, Normal, Everyday Girls.

Thinking - In Particular Abstract Thinking, Which Most Of Us Are Introduced To Through The Study Of Mathematics And Literature - Helps Us Learn That We Can Become Problem Solvers.

We Are The Owls Of The Weather Chaw. We Take It Blistering, We Take It All. Roiling Boiling Gusts, We're The Owls With The Guts. For Blizzards Our Gizzards Dr Tremble With Joy. An Ice Storm, A Gale, How We Love Blinding Hail. We Fly Forward And Backward, Upside Down And Flat. Do We Flinch? Do We Wail? Do We Skitter Or Scutter? No, We Yarp One More Pellet And Fly Straight For The Gutter! Do We Screech? Do We Scream? Do We Gurgle? Take Pause? Not On Your Life! For We Are The Best Of The Best Of The Chaws!

To Me, The Most Important Thing Is To Tell A Good Story. If I Can Do That, I Think That Enlightenment, Respect Of Nature, Etc. Follows.

Glad To Eat Ya', I Mean Meet Ya'" - Digger