Quotes and Poems: Day 35

Quote:

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

― Mahatma Gandhi

Poem:

First Saturday in June

BY EILEEN SPINELLI

Fifty-nine days to go.

I can't find my purple beach towel.

I can't even get to my closet

without walking across

a sea of dirty socks.

Mom pokes her head into my doorway,

says:

"Time to clean your room, Sophie."

And I have to admit

she's right.

And it's not that cleaning my room

is the worst thing to do.

It's just that there are so many other

better things to do,

like—

painting my toenails Strawberry Pink,

eating a huge stack of Uncle Joe's pancakes,

dreaming of riding the Ferris wheel,

thinking up a story to tell

around the campfire

on Scary Story Night,

painting shells,

riding waves . . .

all the fun, wonderful,

sandy, sunny things we do

at Summerhouse Time.