Living On Purpose

I’m going on a lark here, and I’ve decided to share a report I wrote in the sixth grade. “What the heck could be so special about a sixth grade report,” you ask? This particular report recently surfaced in my life, and I was surprised and proud to re-read it.

As you may know, I offer the ebook Sad For No Reason: How to Use the Mood-Food Connection to Banish Depression Naturally. I came to write this book because I love the subject of natural health care, and I believe deeply that everyone needs to be educated about the types of foods that will help or hinder their health.

I found the following report in a box of old school papers. It confirms that I have been interested in this subject nearly my whole life. The teacher, Mrs. Mills, let us pick any subject we wanted to research, and she probably gave us a month to complete the work. I would have been eleven or twelve years old when I researched and wrote it. I’ve typed it exactly as I wrote it, and I included (sic) after my original errors. I could have stopped after chapter one. I have no idea what drove me to add chapter two about deadly mushrooms. I suppose I wanted to give a well-rounded view of wild plants; some are edible and some are poisonous.

The Wild World of Edible Plants

Please use this link to scan the report. I typed it up and included scans of the illustrations and a handwriting sample to show that even in the sixth grade, I gave one hundred percent to the subjects I was interested in. I tended towards perfectionism, and went above and beyone the teacher’s expectations. That’s the kind of effort I put into my ebook Sad for No Reason.

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