Pt. Reyes and Michael

I went to Pt. Reyes before Thanksgiving, the North Beach area - the weather was cooperative (no fog) and it was beautiful! As I walked for awhile, listening to the waves, looking for shells and pretty pebbles, I thought about the next generation of people in the world and how *you* my dear, are doing your best to effect positive change in the world by working with young children as a teacher! I noticed how we used to be able to find sand dollars aplenty, shells of other varieties too, but no more. I thought of all the enviromentally related articles in the news lately too - the New Yorker has an excellent one in this month's issue about CO2 uptake, the climate, the weather, the oceans, the whole damn planet is changing, and not for the better.

Sigh. But you are working with the next generation, you are a public school teacher - you are working hard, diligently, passionately. Little ol me appreciates it! I only can imagine how you plan (let alone *do*) what you do: to institute change and learning through working with children, in a system that is bogged down in bureaucracy and regulations, etc. Yikes! For me, to me, it all starts and ends with care and love - that's where the light bulb lights, where consciousness is changed, how evolution proceeds in the positive. And that's where you come in - you are doing a a great job.

Thank you Michael. Thank you for being a great teacher.