Notes from public school - special edition

This morning, I woke at my normal time - 6:15 A.M.

I drove to school on my normal route.

I walked through the front doors of BES with my normal smile on my face and hope in my heart.

That’s where my normal turned into ‘lamron’ - backwards normal - where up seems down and left seems right and nothing seems the same.

In one day I went from being a classroom teacher, giving high fives to students at my classroom door to being an eLearning teacher giving virtual fist bumps through Google Classroom.

I bet your normal has turned into ‘lamron’, too.

Pandemics can do that to us.

As we find our way from the ‘lamron’ to a new normal, remember...in small ways...we are in solidarity...

with the mamí and abuelo and niños who are fleeing the ‘lamron’ of El Salvador for a better life in America

with the 4th grader who is fleeing the ‘lamron’ of hunger because her mom lost a job and the ways and means to provide for the family 

with each other

We can see the world a little more clearly because we can see it through someone else’s eyes.

We can feel the world a little more deeply because we can feel it with someone else’s heart.

We can touch the world a little more efficaciously because seeing and feeling the world in new ways helps us touch it with our hands and walk in it with our feet in new ways, too.

John Steinbeck wrote, “In every bit of honest writing in the world there is a base theme. Try to understand people, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a person will never lead to hate and nearly always leads to love. There are shorter means, many of them. There is writing promoting social change, writing punishing injustice, writing in celebration of heroism, but always the base theme. Try to understand each other."

“Lamron” can lead to understanding...can lead to kindness...can lead to love.

#together