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[LS Pathfinder] Saturated with Favor

No. 8 Weekly Wrap Up

Mar 05, 2023
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Hello Pathfinders!

I hope that I can encourage you today.

My Personal Story - Perfection Disruption

“lost her salt” sounds so much better than the ugly crying scene it truly was

In the 5th grade I was working on a poster I had entered into a local competition about the environment. I remember that I won the competition. I couldn’t tell you for the life of me what was on the poster or the subject or anything… Except 2 things. Up near the right hand corner there was a flock of birds and it was on bright yellow poster board.

I finished my poster and got up off the classroom floor (where I preferred to draw on my poster so I could get better perspective and have space) and dropped the uncapped black marker in my hand onto the poster. It left a prominent mark near the upper right hand corner of my poster.. This perfectionist wallflower 4th grader lost her salt (aka cried like a baby - but “lost her salt” sounds so much better than the ugly crying scene it truly was).

Mrs. Quirk, one of my top …

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