marine bio 101

1. stow the boogie boards in your cabinet 2. that tall nearly yellow pine every science teacher seems to have 3. store them near the driftwood the seagrass and seaglass the sea stars the sea 4. but not near the glass jars of sting rays in formaldehyde 4. when your sons interrupt class for the boogie boards 5. let that be a lesson 6. organize beach clean ups on saturdays 7. and sea turtle watches at every full moon 8. take your class to sea world 9. let them in on the mischief of scheming marine life freedom 10. name the creatures but not their feelings 11. leave your door open at lunch 12. notice every miraculous and ordinary thing 13. promise people who can't yet see, that it's all here 14. promise peace at slack tide 15. make ocean mobiles often, weather mood materials allowing 16. gently hook your students onto longer lines 17. tell them you'll cut your hair when all the troops are home from Iraq 18. tell them the ocean was our first home 19. tell them time is infinite 20. and currents are swift 21. and tails are for turning 22. leave them behind 23. return to the ocean 24. send your memory in at ebb tide