Dan Taylor

Photographer in the New England area.

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@PeterLovasco Best of luck to your mom

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@Steve_Perrault 93-69

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@AccuRayno Great more snow for southern New England not sure we have a place to put it Bernie lol

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@PeterLovasco We in Rhode Island just surpassed the Blizzard of 78 new record set

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@Rclara9 The airport won’t even be open probably Sunday night cause of the storm

[Brian Crandall @nbc10_brian]

Video just released of suspected gunman in Brown University mass shooting.

[Coastal ABC @CoastalABC]

#VIDEO: The city of Providence has released video of the suspected Brown University shooter. If you have any information call Providence Police at 401-652-5767.

[NewsTalk 99.7 & AM 630 WPRO @wpro]

🚨Here is the video obtained by Providence Police of the suspect leaving the engineering building, as mentioned in the last presser

As of now the suspect is still at large, anyone with information is encouraged to call the Providence Police tip line at 401-272-1111

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@Patriots @DKSportsbook @DrakeMaye2 Would love this

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

A message from a Kindergarten teacher:

After forty years in the classroom, my career ended with one small sentence from a six-year-old:

“My dad says people like you don’t matter anymore.”

No sneer. No malice. Just quiet honesty — the kind that cuts deeper because it’s innocent. He blinked, then added, “You don’t even have a TikTok.”

My name is Mrs. Clara Holt, and for four decades, I taught kindergarten in a small Denver suburb. Today, I stacked the last box on my desk and locked the door behind me.

When I started teaching in the early 1980s, it felt like a promise — a shared belief that what we did mattered. We weren’t rich, but we were valued. Parents brought warm cookies to parent nights. Kids gave you handmade cards with hearts that didn’t quite line up. Watching a child sound out their first sentence felt like magic.

But that world slowly slipped away. The job I once knew has been replaced by exhaustion, red tape, and a kind of loneliness I can’t quite describe.

My evenings used to be filled with construction paper, glitter, and glue sticks. Now they’re spent filling out digital reports to protect myself from angry emails or lawsuits. I’ve been yelled at by parents in front of twenty-five children — one filming me with his phone while I tried to calm another child mid-meltdown.

And the kids… they’ve changed too. Not by choice.

They arrive tired, anxious, overstimulated. Their tiny fingers know how to swipe a screen before they can hold a crayon. Some can’t make eye contact or wait in line. We’re expected to fix all of it — to patch the gaps, heal the trauma, teach the curriculum, and document every move — in six hours a day, with resources that barely fill a drawer.

The little reading corner I once built, full of soft beanbags and paper stars, was replaced by data charts and “learning metrics.” A young principal once told me, “Clara, maybe you’re too nurturing. The district wants measurable results.”

As if kindness were a weakness.

Still, I stayed. Because of the small, holy moments that no spreadsheet could measure —
a whisper of, “You remind me of my grandma.”
a shaky note that read, “I feel safe here.”
a quiet boy finally meeting my eyes and saying, “I read the whole page.”

Those tiny sparks were my reason to keep showing up.

But this last year broke something in me.

The aggression grew sharper. The laughter in the staff room turned to silence. The light went out of so many eyes. I watched brilliant teachers — my friends — vanish under the weight of burnout, their joy replaced by survival.

I felt myself fading too, like chalk on a board that’s been wiped one too many times.

So today, I began my goodbye. I pulled faded art off the walls and tucked thirty years of handmade cards into a single box. In the back of a drawer, I found a letter from a student from 1998:

“Thank you for loving me when I was hard to love.”

I sat on the floor and cried.

No party. No applause. Just a handshake from a young principal who called me “Ma’am” while checking his notifications.

I left my rocking chair behind, and my sticker box too. What I carried with me were the memories — the faces of hundreds of children who once trusted me enough to reach out their hands and learn. That can’t be uploaded. It can’t be measured. It can’t be replaced.

I miss when teachers were partners, not targets. When parents and educators worked side by side, not in opposition. When schools cared more about wonder than numbers.

So if you know a teacher — any teacher — thank them. Not with a mug or a gift card, but with your words. With your respect. With your understanding that behind every test score is a heart that cared enough to try.

Because in a world that often overlooks them, teachers are the ones who never forget our children.

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[NBC10 Boston @NBC10Boston]

Police in Woburn, Massachusetts, are searching for an 8-year-old boy who went missing while his grandfather was babysitting him Saturday night.
https://t.co/mnS8zu5rtk

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@NRIFirePhotos 67 Nooseneck hill rd 100x50 1 sty commercial might be still an auto body shop but not sure

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@JamesYakey @RIBNS @RobCar57 Wakefield st just went up Harding st and I was there lol

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@CJPFirePhotos 2nd alarm

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@AJ_Mast_WX @NBC10 You realize Cranston and Warwick was hit the hardest where most areas do not have power

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@MLB @RedSox Yes please they look awesome

[MLB @MLB]

The @RedSox debuted their Green Monster-inspired City Connect uniforms last night 😮‍💨

Do you want your own? Repost and reply for your chance to win

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@FireAlertsRI 44 east Greenwich Ave dryer fire with extension. Fire is k/d