a museum a day...

my aunt is visiting from memphis.
we have gone to a new museum each day for the last week! whew...i think my head will burst with all of the new information i have absorbed...
it is a good bursting...
i just wanted to comment on something that confirmed all that i believe in when i ponder the amazingness and purity of childrens souls.
we went to the holocaust museum on monday. there were thousands of photographs of jewish prisoners arriving at the concentration camps...arriving to die.
yet. the children...their faces...some were looking at the camera and smiling. even in this dire moment, they still had hope that something good would maybe happen...
the way their faces looked...the grownups all around them exhausted, afraid...doomed. and the children still had the innocence in their faces...and smiled.

it was an intense day, in itself. overwhelmingly intense. but the smile on the children's faces is what got me. pure. innocent. trusting.
amazing.

we hold their trust in our hands. we are responsible for their souls. treat them kindly, whether you are a teacher, parent, relative or just passing a child in public.
be kind.

i have been off for two weeks. can you tell i miss the shorties?

peace to you all and have a great weekend.