Things I Learned Last Week, Inspired By William Stafford

When I first read the title of his poem I immediately thought of all the new things I learned last week: How important words in a brief letter can have an impact on another's decision and can affect your life. How words that are spoken soft and carefully can change each and every life around you, even some you may be unaware of. That prenatal care is highly important. Just how far you can splash mud across a truck. How fun it is to let loose, sit in the middle and make his day just by letting him drive my ol' Chevy And that an infant car seat is not going to fit in it very well this Fall. Most of I learned that young children are honest, and if one four year old knows you are going to have a baby, the entire world will too.