On a lighter, brighter note…

I just got an email from Marz with a screen cap of her semester grades: all A’s! 

I am over the moon proud of and happy for her. I’m not surprised at her grades; but I’m, … not ‘surprised’ exactly, but, um, impressed to witness her all semester calling up strengths I didn’t know she had – – probably because I didn’t recognize them in their latency because they are not my strengths: drive and discipline. 

Ya know, I don’t mean to just brag about my “child” here. It’s more that I want to share how moved I am to see the resilience of the human spirit. Marz was not exactly encouraged to flourish, but here she is. It’s like how I got all choked up over the reopening of the cathedral of Notre Dame. 

Humans can do great things, if we get on it. You see the cathedral and you think, we could have rebuilt New Orleans in that short time too. (Oh, we knew we could have, but here’s the counter-example.)

Here in town, we could get something brilliant at George Floyd Square instead of still squabbling over the tattered dump that it is.

And for our individual selves, we can be great, whatever that is for each of us. We can shine. 

We do shine!