BELONGING: SCOTTISH, WELSH, FRENCH, CHEROKEE
“One day . . . or day one.” – Anonymous May: Cherokee Month of the Planting Moon SEL: #3 Social-Awareness Digital Learner: #2Global Collaborator A kind word to one in trouble is often like a switch in a railroad track. . .an inch between wreck and smooth sailing. – Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) When I was nine years old, my best friend taught me to ride horses. She was Swedish, knew her grandfather was Swedish, and she had cousins in Sweden. After college, she began learning the language and took her daughter to meet the Scandinavian cousins. They made round-ribbon wreaths for their hair with long ribbon-streamers down the back. I wanted to belong to a culture. (I was very angry as a...