Have you heard of the narwhal? Along with the bowhead and beluga whales, it is an Arctic whale that lives all of it's life in the icy waters of the Arctic ocean. It is called the unicorn of the sea because it has a single horn that protrudes up to nine feet out of it's forehead. In older days, it's horn was given to the kings and queens of Europe to use as scepters, for many thought there was great power and even magic in it.
It is not really a horn, though. It is a tooth. Like a human tooth, it is very, very sensitive.
If a narwhal tooth breaks, it causes the poor narwhal a sharp and abiding pain. If that break happens, an amazing thing happens. Another narwhal places it's tooth into the broken tooth of the hurting narwhal. That act of kindness assuages the pain.
I wonder.
How can I be like the narwhal?
What acts of kindness can I do for the world around me?
One is to place myself in the life of my school and the lives of my students each day in public school.
The other is to write about what I see and hear and do.
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