amyellen

As I sit here and breath during the state reading test and KELPA, I thought I would write down my thoughts about the therapeutic tool I have been using.

Despite the ball’s bumpy texture, it is not painful to the touch.
Maybe it was at one point.
I remember in the store that it felt more pokey than soothing.
Maybe I have rubbed the points down to bumps during the last two weeks of testing.
Just like the earth, it has a northern hemisphere and a southern hemisphere.
The northern hemisphere has a black hard piece of plastic to serve as the air’s entry point.
I wonder if the north pole has a similar place for God to carefully insert the right amount of pressure into the earth.
Too much pressure and BOOOM ….
The air hole does not bend, move, or leak.
It is the most solid air release/insert value I have ever seen on a ball.
Then again, I do not normally have time to examine many toys or tools in my everyday life.

My pink bumpy sphere does have more air than it’s brothers: Mr. Purple and Mr. Orange.
Then again, they rolled around the floorboard for a while during various climatic changes.
Maybe they are sad that they don’t get used like Ms. Pink does.
They sit at home anxiously awaiting the kids to come home from school with spelling words
So they can be used to practice different spelling patterns.
Maybe that is why they have released some of their air.
Releasing air in the anguish of not being used day in and day out.

My pink sphere has approximately 310 bumps on it.
There are more bumps in the northern hemisphere than there are in the south.
I wonder if that could be related to population.
Maybe it is just because the south pole consists of a UPC code
And some confusion of it’s nationality,
And a rubbed out ELL label.
It says it is from Mexico
Even gives the specific area and zip code
Guadalajara
44940
But
Then again
It does list something that ends in USA

So which is it?
Are you from Mexico or from here?

Maybe it is fitting that it ended up in my office.
A place full of people that are from here but at the same time here or there
Maybe it is my pink bumpy multicultural ball
How fitting!

I don’t think it is bilingual though
Despite my squeezing and pushing and pulling
It has not leaked any air
So I can’t tell if it leaks air in Spanish or in English

All I know is I love my
Pink bumpy sphere
With its equator
North and south poles
It’s slight lean to the right
Caused by my squeezing and pushing

Oh, I also learned
It does not work well to be
brushed through hair to massage my head
rolled down my calf over my pant leg
or stroked down a bare arm

But it does work well to be
Rolled on the side of the heel of my sandaled foot
Rolled between my hands after putting lotion on
And squeezed so hard that it almost pops
when the kids are answering their questions.

Who knew that a pink bumpy sphere
Could cause such relief to state testing
And have therapeutic benefits to my stressed
Body and mind.

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I am testing this. ...,.

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Life is annoyingly normal today.

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