Soil Table

Do you know how one comment can stay with you?

A visiting teacher has left me with one.

I keep returning to the thought.

She has children who have not touched dirt.

She brings in dirt to her classroom.

It will take her a week before some of the kids will build the courage to touch,

let alone put their hands down in the pile.

What we live with everyday is a once in a lifetime experience for some of these children.

Now, Grandpa Gene built us a soil table for tours.

I have learned a new lesson.

I look at dirt differently, now.