• What connects these narratives?
• How do these narratives stand alone?
• For each poem, what feelings came up when you wrote them? Have those feelings changed? What has remained?
• How does presence play a role in how you experience the poems? About those time periods in your life?
• Even as the author, can you make a list of elements that sit outside of the edge of these poems and those experiences, as if you were observing them from another's perspective?
• Do I shape my experiences? Do my experiences shape me? Or do they work in tandem, and if so, how?

These are the things I learned (in Kindergarten):

1. Share everything.
2. Play fair.
3. Don't hit people.
4. Put things back where you found them.
5. CLEAN UP YOUR OWN MESS.
6. Don't take things that aren't yours.
7. Say you're SORRY when you HURT somebody.
8. Wash your hands before you eat.
9. Flush.
10. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
11. Live a balanced life - learn some and drink some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.
12. Take a nap every afternoon.
13. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.
14. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
15. Goldfish and hamster and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
16. And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.” ― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten