A Microcosm

 Last night I was blessed to have dinner with a couple of my all-time favorite students, Maeve and Ronan. They knew I was retiring, and they wanted to take the opportunity to grab dinner and get caught up. They make up a tiny microcosm of the six-thousand students I taught over the decades, but I will happy take them as stand-ins for the rest. It was an emotional day, and getting to finish it with these amazing young people was a gift.

Besides being great students and folks heading out into very promising careers, they were also two of the folks who founded the non-profit to support the refugee school in Jordan. They are exactly the reason why I did what I did for so may years.