In the true Stafford Challenge spirit, I’m sharing a blurb of prose and then sharing a poem. That’s how William Stafford wrote as a morning practice each day, and it’s what his son Kim modeled two years ago at the kickoff of the inaugural Stafford Challenge group led by Brian Rohr. Write into the day with free thought, then channel the thinking into lines of verse. Here’s what is on my mind today: more time to write. I’ve chosen a Tanka as my poetry form for this morning, and I’ll add a link to a well-known William Stafford poem at the bottom. It gets me every time.
Bean-Spilling Onward!
It’s Thursday and I
can’t stop thinking about one
thing: spilling the beans
when the moment of truth rings
when days turn into new dreams
Traveling Through the Dark by William Stafford
Common Threads 
When I introduced notebooking to my students, I used the William Stafford method, but changed the directions to be kid friendly. A quote of the day, What’s Up, then a Poem-ish. It worked well.
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