Bring On #WriteOut 25, Oct. 12-26, the @WritingProject Tradition of Taking Our Work Beyond Classrooms & To the Places We Love

First of all, it's day two, but I'm posting ahead of time (and in preparation), because I got home late and I'm always a delayed writer, anyways. I want to be on top of my game! Congratulations to all who put in the hard work to make #WriteOut what it is and I will always sing praises for our National Park Service friends who have been with us for so many years. Here's hoping for excellence in all they do is returned to their incredible leadership, worth, and value in the United States. 

Are you read for #WriteOut '25, October 12 -26, where each and every day you can visit the website and think of new ways to interact and compose about the outdoor world?

I'm planting seeds here with this post, as I spent a portion of my afternoon harvesting wildflower seeds so I can spread them to new parts of my house and neighborhood in the spring. My dream is to have a butterfly, bumblebee emporium - besides, I like looking out all my windows in every direction simply to see popping colors (especially the Cosmos and 4 O'Clocks which loves my yard and its sunlight). 

We finally got a little rain yesterday, which loosened some of the seeds after they dried out when the rainclouds disappeared. It was easy picking from there, and I simply put all the seeds in storage containers like I have for the past several years. Why? To spread the love and joy, of course. 

This morning I'm heading off with 20 undergraduate students to visit a K-6 school (we're working with 1st and 3rd graders), and I might share some of these seeds with the school so they can spread the colors themselves this spring. It is their nature to expand, explore, pop, and bring life to new areas and I'm here for all of it. 

I also am thrilled to say that there's a short reprieve in recording The Write Time, as we have so many episodes in queue that taking a break is just fight. 

So here's to education, the love of learning, the hope for a better world, and a commercial for the National Writing Project celebration. Perhaps we can take our work this year and share it with every educator we know so they, too, can be like the seeds. 

That's my wish for the universe.