My Wonderings

First day of Teachers Write ~July 9, 2019
What do you wonder about? Spend ten minutes making a list. It can be anything from Komodo dragons to how babies learn to what happens in our brains when we cry. Anything you’ve ever wondered about. Because wonderings can be the best beginnings for writing. Ready…set…wonder!


These are my wonderings.
Whenever I travel, I find out interesting things about places or things. I just got back from Ireland, and one of the places we visited was Trinity College and saw the Book of Kells. I have seen this book one other time and bought a book about the Book of Kells. I find it very fascinating, and it is considered the FIRST bound book that the world has. Monks copied the first Four Gospels onto calfskins that had been scraped. Anyway, it is beautiful and interesting to me.
Other things that I find interesting:
-The Irish have over 50 names for rain
-I have an interesting grandma who eloped at 17 with a ranch hand instead of marrying her fiancé who she was promised to. Her life is really interesting.
-I have a lot of pioneer heritage and we have a few journals with interesting stories that I have wanted to fictionalize.
– I read an article about Korean’s Jeju Province (Marado) where only women free dive. They can hold their breath for more than two minutes bringing up treasures such as sea cucumbers, conchs, and abalone. The diving might have started with men, but by the 18th century the discipline became women alone.