A Grain in the Sand of Time...

As I complete my portfolio for this latest degree I've started to realize a few things. One- I've learned a lot and two- that I know nothing. "I am but a grain in the sand of time..." and that would be my very own quote, smile. I've been afforded opportunities only dreamt about in my past. What the future holds I do not know but I do know this, that everything that has come before are but stepping stones....

As I write this portfolio I am structuring my writing and educational artifacts around quotes... in my mind my protfolio has taken on shape if not the first stirrings of life, but isn't that what writing is? Life taking form in the written word?

"I have a dream that my four little children
will one day live in a nation
where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character."

Martin Luther King Jr.

This quote by Martin Luther King Jr. says it all for me. I too have dreams, and children, and I also wish not to be judged my the color of my skin, or my gender... I hope you find meaning in a quote, prayer or symbol today too. Signs are all around us, we just need to look for them to point the way.

I have been mining all my college textbooks for the last few days, looling for quotes that I can use for this latest endeavor. What stands out to me is that I wrote the word literacy in many of my textbooks, and we're going back several years here, well before I knew literacy would be the subject of my master's degree. Funny how life works out isn't it?

My prayer for you today is that you find signs that point you along your journey, whether in the form of the written word or in a different way. Keep looking- they're out there.