A Small Inkling

                                                                  "Kisses from Katie" is an amazing story about a nineteen-year-old missionary that moves to Uganda to help children who are in desperate need of love and care. While caring for hundreds of children every day, she finds fourteen that she decides to adopt. Follow Katie along as she deals with the hardships and joys of living in "the pearl of Africa."     Katie Davis, at the age of eighteen, decided to go on a missions trip to Uganda, while she was there,  she fell in love with the country. Many people around her probably thought she was crazy when she decided to move there to become a Kindergarten teacher. The more time Katie lived in Uganda though, the less she wanted to go back to the US. But why? Why would she leave all her family and friends in the comfort of  Tennessee to live in a country where hardly anyone spoke the same language, many starved to death, and where she had to sleep underneath mosqu

  The Stump by Amelia Ott I used to be so tall. Now I am quite small. Birds used to land atop my head. Now all my leaves are gone and dead. Critters used to call me home, But now I am all alone. There are no green things to be found. I now lay huddled, close to the ground. I used to host a hive of bees, Along with many other trees. Now all the bees have moved away; To find another tree to stay. I used to dance along with the wind, I used to gracefully bow and bend. Now I just sit here all day long, Without my leaves' rustling song. So I'll remember the days that used to be, When I was a tall and mighty tree. -Amelia