I Am Carly Rosie, a Poem & Assignment from Cultural Foundations of Education Course

 

I am Carly Rosie

 

I am homemade apple walnut pie,

 

I am homegrown and homespun.

 

I am a cook & a bit of an eater.

 

I am Mom. I am Honey.

 

I am exactly who I am supposed to be, and so are you.

 

I am an adventurer and a homebody.

 

I am a singer and a writer

 

I am a swimmer and an early morning walker. 

 

A meditator and reflector.

 

I am an advocate and a leader. 

 

Sometimes, I am the mouthpiece

 

I am the work

 

I am positive psychology & safe spaces. 

 

I am a protective factor 

 

I am right speech, right thought and often,

grumbling but doing the right thing at the right time.

 

I am a diplomat

 

I am Marblemount and Khartoum, Kampala and Lahore and Ugandan-American. 

 

I am a BA in Elementary Education, MS Special Education, PTC & MEd*

 

I am grit.

 

I am matching it up & holding my own, most of the time. 

 

I am Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and 2Pac.

 

I am Ram Dass & Alan Watts

 

I am Joseph Campbell, Edward Abbey and Elizabeth Wharton

 

I am philosophy and psychology and religious thought

 

I am unemployed… over the summer

 

I am curry and other things with rice, BLTs, cold beer and sneaky cigarettes. 

 

I am garlic, and chocolate and coffee.

 

I am up early

 

and up to my own devices