snow

there wasn't as much snow today as I had hoped for. Well, there is still more snow coming our way later but i had hoped for there to be more on the ground as I woke up this morning. part of the reason that i was anticipating the snow is that i am a winter person. I enjoy the look and feel of snow. I find there is so much beauty in the quiet quality that snow produces that so much of humanity has overlooked. i realize the other reason that i wanted to snow to come is that i was looking forward to a snow day. Doesn't that sound silly. A junior in college, twenty years old, involved in a semi-professional standing as and educator and i still do my snow dance in the living room. I think part of realizing ourselves as teachers is to realize that entering back into the scholastic institution says something about our departure from being students. We may be people who will never be able to fully divorce ourselves from the elation of the bell ringing for the last day of school and I think that's fine. I don't think we need to be "above" that feeling. I think we should always hold that field-trip-joy near to our hearts