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Just wait and see. I remember those words and how they chided me, when patient was the hardest thing to be.
These are days we’ll remember. Never before and never since, I promise, will the whole world be warm as this.
- Natalie Merchant, “How You’ve Grown” and “These Are Days”
The walk from housemeeting to my office takes rather longer than normal, and I definitely do not run up the stairs two at a time. Earlier this morning, this uncharacteristic stiffness was puzzling me. I had run the previous evening, but not an excessive distance nor at an excessive speed. One of the students solved my dilemma for me when she asked in homeroom if I was a little stiff. Immediately I recalled the vision of her sprinting past multiple members of the opposing team to return the captured flag to her side of the field and claim victory (which she did twice in three matches!), and my own stiffness suddenly made sense to me.
Founders' Day is a five-year-old middle school tradition. Proposed, logically enough, by the Founders, it is a day off from classes planned and executed entirely by the middle school. Though planned from scratch each year, the morning usually includes the chance to sleep late, breakfast from Dunkin' Donuts, a movie (this year, "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"), and tie-dying t-shirts which the students will sign for each other when they get them back at the end of the week. Lunch this year was a barbeque, followed by group pictures. After lunch, the students had a fun and intense series of games of Capture the Flag, then broke for ice cream. The day concluded with various other games including a variation on hide and seek and water balloons. While the threatened rain did come, it kindly held off until the ice cream break; this is how well things went all day. The students enjoyed relaxing together, did a great job of being inclusive and supportive of each other, and created wonderful memories they can carry with them.
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