Connection
Relationships This blog is a particularly hard one for me. My husband and I attended a memorial service of a former student at a funeral home. When we arrived about fifteen minutes early there were a couple dozen young 20- to 30-year-olds just hanging out at the front entrance—everyone wearing Hawaiian shirts or leis or both. The rest of the funeral home was jam packed and several former students said hello to us as we wheeled in and found a spot near the back of one already nearly filled wing. I won’t say much more on this except that at the finality of life, there can be lasting legacy in our relationships, especially good ones. I knew the power of relationships as a teacher and unfortunately I knew that relationships run the risks of experiencing deep pain as well. Like this celebration of life memorial service. Connection—Finding the Imperishable Chris asked me recently the secret to educating and I immediately told him, connection. That was why I attended the stu...