A blog for the book IMPERFECT: a poetry anthology for middle schoolers about mistakes How can we make the most of useful mistakes and do our best to fix the ones that need fixing? Poetry can help us figure it out.
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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. ~ John Lubbock
"A Summer Day in the Dunes" by Hermann Seeger (1857-1945).