seems 11:45ish is prime time for tucking a small weekly something into bacnc mail boxes. way too many students to do something for them all - how we have grown since the mom squad baked goodies for pendleton hallites - but at least i can deliver a tiny tap on the heart and/or mind each week to the seniors.
food is too iffy, so have opted for photocopies of print whatevers that i love. this week, it was a print-out of a quote, last week it was a cool cover of what is enlightennext? magazine (is it even published anymore?). means keeping my eyes peeled for sales on color printing & maintaining a sane balance between b&w prints & $$ colored, but so worth it. they can trash it or keep it or pass it on - it's about extending loving energy, not stuff.
less than half the class were part of the kindergarten i adopted (oops - a politically incorrect word, these days)... EMBRACED - was it 17 years ago? the majority of the class didn't attend bacs, while a large number never attended anc. how times have changed!
it's been 48 years since i first baked a goodie for an ancc (now bacnc) student - college women lived in the stucco'd wing off glenn hall, with high school boarding students in the original building. seems the blink of an eye that i - a mere h.s. freshman - would visit college friends for a gab & a smoke (yes, it was ok waaay back then). glenn hall was a place where i was always welcomed, whether i was toting a goodie or not. maybe i continue to do what i can for anc & bacnc students as a sign of gratitude. i didn't strike up any deep friendships, which was fine - i was totally unschooled back then on how to move from light touch to connection to integration - because what i needed was a place to at least connect.
blessings on all the people who made me feel visible & even valued. i pledge to continue paying forward all you gave me, far more than i gave you.
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