{"id":15376,"date":"2016-02-29T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=15376"},"modified":"2016-02-28T12:13:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T17:13:33","slug":"where-i-belong-by-allison-haycraft-daily-reflection-february-29-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/where-i-belong-by-allison-haycraft-daily-reflection-february-29-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"“Where I Belong” by Allison Haycraft, Daily Reflection February 29, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My students never cease to amaze me! They are so talented. Often times I believe they teach me more than I teach them. One of my students shared this beautiful poem with me. I would like to share it with you.<\/p>\n
Where I Belong.<\/p>\n
I am from photo books, captain crunch cereal,<\/p>\n
Hide and seek;<\/p>\n
From Clorox and GE<\/p>\n
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I am from<\/p>\n
The small backyard,<\/p>\n
The narrow hallway,<\/p>\n
And the kitchen where Pinterest does most of our cooking<\/p>\n
The house smells different each month,<\/p>\n
Due to wallflowers;<\/p>\n
Looking forward to October,<\/p>\n
For the scent of pumpkin spice<\/p>\n
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I am from the dogwood tree,<\/p>\n
The tulips and lilies;<\/p>\n
Whose petals are white and pink,<\/p>\n
Always blooming in the spring<\/p>\n
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I am from<\/p>\n
Gathering on Christmas morning,<\/p>\n
With two families, at two houses<\/p>\n
From traditional and stepparents<\/p>\n
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I am from<\/p>\n
Fidgeting,<\/p>\n
Leg tapping,<\/p>\n
Thick eyebrows.<\/p>\n
From<\/p>\n
Louisville,<\/p>\n
Breakfast,<\/p>\n
Many cookouts.<\/p>\n
Both the farm and lakehouse<\/p>\n
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I am from funniest home videos,<\/p>\n
In the living room;<\/p>\n
And movies,<\/p>\n
In the basement.<\/p>\n
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I am from \u201ctreat others like you want to be treated,\u201d<\/p>\n
To share.<\/p>\n
From the times,<\/p>\n
When my brothers and I,<\/p>\n
Would play outside,<\/p>\n
In that backyard of ours;<\/p>\n
To now,<\/p>\n
I watch my little sister,<\/p>\n
Remembering my younger brother,<\/p>\n
Whom watches over us,<\/p>\n
With his angel wings.<\/p>\n
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There\u2019s an empty part of me,<\/p>\n
That will never be filled,<\/p>\n
In exactly the same way.<\/p>\n
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He made me the strongest,<\/p>\n
When he returned home peacefully.<\/p>\n
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I too,<\/p>\n
Am from that home,<\/p>\n
And someday will return to it.<\/p>\n
Copyright 2015\u00a0Allison Haycraft<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sometimes they teach me more than I teach them….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1716,931,487],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}