Missing Letters • Torin Curtin Savala, Fifth Grade

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We wish more people would be child-like (not to be confused with childish). Our very tools of expression can sometimes be our steepest limitations, which is why the poem below by Torin Curtin Savala, a fifth grader from California, struck us right in the heart. Torin takes to the keyboard to express the difficulty he experiences on paper. Gripping a pen and forming letters does not come easily. But Torin meets this challenge with creativity and courage. Unable to read what he wrote? Highlight each line and see for yourself the invisible letters he faces every day.

Missing words,

Oh no, words are missing.

Disappearing.

Gone

Ahhhh.

Tiny blank spots nowhere to be seen.

Where did they go?

Not here, not there.

Maybe in your hair?

Missing words are everywhere.

So clear and near.

But to us they are nowhere to be seen.

Maybe they are hiding in beans.

But to us they can not be seen.

 

Torin Curtin Savala

A Good Teacher is Like a Candle, It Consumes Itself to Light the Way for Others

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Hello everyone!

I am a student in 12th grade at ZEC. I want to go to college because I attend different events. When I know the value of knowledge I started to dream about goin to college. My greatest wishes to become a teacher in the future. A good teacher is like a candle it consumes itself to light the way for others. Education means to me freedom from stereotypes. With college degree I will have future opportunities. By getting education I will solve my problem and help other boys and girls in my village. When I have a daughter I wish her to be educated and serve to her homeland. Thanks.

Best wishes
Negeena Mir Anas 

If you would like to write a letter to Negeena, please do. Send it to us at info@handwrittenwork.com, and we will showcase it above, so she can read your reply & words. We will post our replies beginning on December 12th, the day they graduate.

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