Why only love can save the world

I have no doubts, anymore, that love will save the world. Because the alternatives just cannot be responsible for the mess we have made of it.

We are gonna be friends

Really beginning to appreciate, these days, how much all people, and all kids, live with the insecurity sitting on their hearts of whether they're good enough, smart enough, whatever enough. In school. In church. In life.



The kids and I spent the first week of school just getting to know one another and talking really honestly about this insecurity. About how we all have it. And about how we're valued for just who we are. And about how out of that kind of love for ourselves, we learn to be 100% responsible for ourselves and our lives.

It's a message that clearly resonated. The kids were much better behaved this week than any first week I've ever taught. At any school. Nevertheless at Cap City.

Only one academic task this week. Analyzing a historical document. Being real life historians. It was a blast.

I never cease to be amazed at how the toughest characters always respond better to kindness. That doesn't guarantee a better life. Only better choices can do that. But it's the foundation on which everything else rests.

If you doubt that, you probably have a mom to go thank. Or a dad. Or a grandma or a grandpa. Or someone who loved you. No matter how shitty you turned out:).

Love is more powerful than fear. It just is. Though it appreciates your opinion to the contrary.