A Moment

When you are in the thick of your work, you don't often take the opportunity to stop the action and really appreciate the impact you make. Yesterday, I was at my largest afterschool program, Family PREP. It was the final day of the ten week long circus arts program for our kindergarten and first grade students. For that single 45 minute period, the children were not competing with each other for attention, time or food. They were attentive and enjoying themselves and their new skills: juggling, plate spinning, stilt walking, ring tossing and clowning. The staff were also free to appreciate the students and the moment. It was truly a beautiful moment. The emphasis is on the moment. In that moment I realized that the work we do with impoverished children matters, has an impact on them and the adults who guide them. The children are beautiful and I am so very grateful for the opportunity to show them how big the world really is and that it is filled with people who want them to be successful.